TWO RECORDS BROKEN

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1934, Page 9

TWO RECORDS BROKEN

FLIGHT MADE ACROSS AUSTRALIA. NEWS AND PICTURES OF PRINCE. By Telegraph—Press Association. ■ ■ ; Auckland, Oct. 15. The- Sydney aviator,, Mr. D. Collins, who'broke fwo records’by bringing news and photographs of the Duke of Glouces-' ter’s arrival from 1 Perth to Sydney, is apassenger by the Aorangi with his wife. Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Wiley, who will buy an aeroplane in London and fly by easy stages to Australia on a honeymoon tour, are also passengers. Mr. Collins said that at 4 p.m. on the day of the" duke’s arrival he left Perth in Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s Percival Gull machine. He flew all night and reached Adelaide at 5 a.m. He had breakfast while., the plane was being refuelled and reached Melbourne at 11 a.m. and then went on to Sydney, taking just over 23 hours for the whole journey. “We went all night,” he said, “and only once had an anxious time on the way to Adelaide, when there was a complete ‘blackout’ for two hours. Mist and the fact that the stars were obscured made be rely on the blind-flying instruments. However, when day dawned the aeroplane was over Spencer’s Gulf, right on the course.”

One record was the longest non-stop night flight, and the other a light plane flight from Perth to Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.