TO AUSTRALIA AND BACK
ATTEMPT TO BREAK RECORD. By Telekraph-—Press Association. Rec. 9 p.m. London, April 29. Captain Neville Stack, with Mr. J. RChaplain, in an open two-seater left Lympno aerodrome at daybreak to-day in an endeavour to fly to Australia and back in 21 days. Mr. Chaplin, who was aide-de-camp to Lord Byng when he was Governor-Gen-eral of Canada, comes from a millionaire Vancouver family. “Kidston has shown the Post Office how the air mail services in South Africa can be improved; we hope to teach the same lesson and even go a stage further/’ said Captain Stack. “We may beat Scott’s magnificent record on the outward flight, but it is not our object. The liiotive really is to demonstrate the urgent necessity for a regular fast service to the eastern portions of the Empire. It is useless using comparatively slow machines for mails. It is possible to run a regular mail service to Australia in ten days instead of the present 15. days’ experimental schedule. What a single machine can accomplish of men and machines can outdo easily.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1931, Page 7
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