ENGLAND-AUSTRALIA FLIGHT
BROADBENT STARTS OUT ‘-United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 30th March, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, 29th March. The aviator Broadbent started for Australia at 0 a.m. from Hanworth. His departure was probably the most lonely and most unobtrusive of an Australian flyer. The only witness to the departure was a National Flying Services engineer, who says that Broadbent took off without any preliminaries. It is believed that his first stop will be at Munich, a distance of 500 miles. He carried an extra petrol tank alongside the cockpit.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 30 March 1931, Page 5
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