HONEYMOON FLIGHT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18528, 15 October 1934, Page 7

HONEYMOON FLIGHT

LONDON TO AUSTRALIA RECOR D-P.REAKER’S PI .A NS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The Sydney aviator, Mr. 1). Collins, who broke two records in bringing news and photographs of the Duke of Gloucester’s arrival from Perth to Sydney, is a passenger on the Aorangi, with his wife, and also Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Wiley. They will buy an aeroplane in London and fiy in easy stages to Australia, it being a honeymoon tour for the latter pair. Mr. Collins said he left Perth at 4 p.m. on the day of the 'Duke s arrival in Hir Charles Kingsford Smith’s Percival Gull machine, Hying all night and reaching Adelaide at 5 a.m. He breakfasted while the plane was refuelled, and reached Melbourne at 11 a.m., and thence Sydney, taking just over 23 hours for the whole journey. “We went all night,’’ he said. “There was only one anxious time on the way. Adelaide was a complete black-out for two hours. The stars being obscured, and mist, made me rely on the blindflying instruments. However, when day dawned we were over Spencer’s Gulf, right on the course.” One record was the longest non-stop night flight, and the other for a light plane flight from Perth to Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney*