"A BOX OF TRICKS"
hSklek's baby plane. australian flight .intended. Press • Ausand N.Z : Qable Assn. (Received 11.45 a.m.) LONfoO/February ,2. *"' , ''Hinkler's pox,'of tricky" is Croyadn's nickrfame for ; the flying fishlike baby, plane, wherein the young ils J traiiatx fibres to "drop in to bjis hotfle at within three week's of leaving. " . , • , Everything is ready except a final certificate of airworthiness. He will take" off 'on the first clear mOrnihg,,, so as fo Have. a ( Mrth-while initial Idtig hop, probably as far as Italy. Hirikler never pihs 'tiiiiiself to a i time-table, but ,be'lieve s in flying as; lofrg ks the goiiig is gbod and thepetrol lasts, bilt b'is friends are so Siife he will create a record that they are taking out policies in Lloyds from which they stand to win submantialfiy if 'he bccupYes Te's a than twenty-eight days. It is only for the machine tb do five hundred mile s daily to achieve -this.' ' ' '
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 81, 3 February 1928, Page 6
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