BROADBENT'S PROGRESS
RECORD FLIGHT BID
ARRIV AI . AT SI NGAPOR E
SINGAPORE, April 28
The Australian flyer, Mr. 11. P. Broadbonl, who left Darwin at u*.4o o'clock on Tuesday evening, reached Singapore at 0.20 a.m. to-day in the course of his attempt to lower Mr. If. L. Brook's record for the solo flight from Australia to England.
BROOK'S PLAN ALTERED
SINGLE WAY RECORD
FORCED LANDING SEQUEL
TUBA, April 28.
.Mr. 11. L. Brook, whose attempt to sot a record for the flight from England to Capetown and bade, was delayed when his plane was damaged in a 'forced landing 100 miles to the north of Juba, has abandoned his attempt on the outward record.
He is going- on to Capetown. After repairs to the plane, lie will attempt a record on the homeward flight.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19311, 29 April 1937, Page 5
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