A PERILOUS FLIGHT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17556, 23 August 1920, Page 5

A PERILOUS FLIGHT.

ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA. PASES AND HcINTdSH.f _""-; ;"i-vi ■■ ! ——- •.. ' • : :^~'7-i- v iP" THRILLING TALE OP ADVENTURE.' The flight of Lieutenants Parer and Mo. Intosh from England to Australia was one long series of misfortune and' thrills. The following story of their exploit is written by an Australian pressman from the narrative of the aviators after their arrival at Darwin>7- ;'"■■■•'•.'_, ■*■';' Y ? , It has to ,be remembered > that Sir. Bess, Smith had already' demonstrated to the world that flight to» Australia was possible, and .had won his great Commonwealth prize of £10,000. Parer and Mcintosh found little encouragement from anybody in England. The London Times turned their project down, and even the firm who supplied the machine, a de Havilland No. 9, refused to assist, and would not even install a larger benzine tank when requested to do so. However, a determined Australian is a creation unto himself, and they were not to be thwarted. They financed themselves and bought the bus, and with " this business completed, £40 between them was the joint capital they could raise.

Permission' was then refused them to leave England, it being thought by the air control * experts that the idea was foolhardy in the. extreme, owing to the fact that the de Havilland was an old type of bombing machine, used in the early stages of the war, and altogether unsuitable for a long, sustained flight. A good friend in Mir. Peter Dawson, ~" gave some monetary assistance,, which "' made things a bit easier, bat- still the authorities were adamant about allowing the two to leave England. *,„"-".

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