IN FOUR DAYS
ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA. “To Australia in four days,” ip the plan being worked out l;y Captain Neville Stack, who lias taken part in many groat long-distance dual flights. His idea is to beat existing records by such a margin that America’s threatened challenge to British airmen will ho futile.
Captain Stack, who is at present completing his arrangements, will use a two-seater machine capable of covering 200 miles an hour, or about 2500 miles in a day. His other plans include a journey to India and back to England in the course of a week-end, ana to tire Cape in three days. After a series of brilliant ll’gilts in Europe, Captain Stack, with Mr Chaplin, started on a flight to Australia, just 12 months ago, hoping to break the record. They turned back and started again, but were again forced to return. The “try-out” flights had included one to Warsaw and back in one day. They also flew from Lympne to Constantinople in the record time of 12 hours 35 minutes. Previously they had flown to Berlin and back in a 'day and to Copenhagen and back in a day.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 142, 18 May 1932, Page 5
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193IN FOUR DAYS Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 142, 18 May 1932, Page 5
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