SWISS BROTHERS
FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, May 27. The most novel flight to Australia yet undertaken commenced on May 20 when a 19-year-old Swiss, Alfons Breitenbach, who secured his pilot’s certificate when 16, and his brother, Carl, left Zurich in a monoplane. Alfons is an accomplished organist and will give recitals in the. capital cities of Australia. He intends making the Timor Sea crossing alone, sending his b 'ther by steamer in order to allow the machine to carry the maximum amount of petrol. They were last reported at Constantinople.
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Southland Times, Issue 21715, 30 May 1932, Page 7
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