FOUR DAYS’ JOURNEY
ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA FORTHCOMING FLIGHT. LONDON, May 6. “To Australia in four days,” is the plan being worked out by Captain Neville Stack, who , has taken part in many great long-distance dual flights. His idea is to beat existing records by such a margin that America’s threatened challenge to British airmen will be futile. Captain Stack, who is at present completing his arrangements, will use a twoseater 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, and to the Cape in three days. After a scries of brilliant flights 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 flow 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21645, 16 May 1932, Page 8
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