FLIGHT ROUND AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1924, Page 9

FLIGHT ROUND AUSTRALIA.

iColonel Brinsmead, Controller of Civil Aviation, left Melbourne on August 7, 19124, at 10.30 on a flight round Australia. He is accompanied by Captain Jones as pilot and Mr. Buchanan as mechanic. The D.H. aeroplane, which is making the flight, underwent thorough 'preliminary tests during the past week. It is expected that the flight will take about one month, although no effort will be made to accomplish the trip in any set time. Colonel Brinsmead will survey proposed air routes, and will study the operations of the .air fleets already flying over the OharlevilieCloncurry route in Queensland, and tue Derby-Perth route in Western Australia. Much valuable information will be gained as to the practicability of aerial services in remote parts of ‘the Continent. Careful preparations have been made t ► ensure the success of this flight. The organisation of supplies of petrol, luorieating oil. and distilled water, to be available at all points along the route where stops are to be made, nas already been carried out by the Vacuum Oil Company Proprietary, Ltd. Plume aviation motor spirit and Gargoyle Mobiloil have been selected as the fuel and lubricating oil respectively for the aero plane, engine. The recent round-AusUa lia flight by Wing-Commander Goble and Flight-Lieutenant Mclntyre, has already given world-wide prominence to Australian aviation. The start of the present flight is the beginning of another important page in the higtop- fljring,