MOTH FLYER SETS NEW ENDURANCE RECORD IN BRITAIN

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18544, 18 August 1928, Page 1

MOTH FLYER SETS NEW ENDURANCE RECORD IN BRITAIN

CAPTAIN BROAD READS AND EATS WHILST ’PLANE CARRIES ON

(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received August 18, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, August 17. Captain Hubert Broad has beaten the endurance record for light aeroplanes. He went up last evening with fuel for twenty hours and to-day had been in the air longer than that time. The previous best flight was that of Squadron-Leader Bert Hinkler, who, on his journey to Australia in a light plane, was in the air on the first stage of the journey for thirteen hours. Captain Broad’s machine, a Gipsy Moth, is of the same type of craft on which he secured for Britain the

world’s speed and altitude records for light aircraft. Captain Broad had not set himself any particular course, but wandered at will over England. He has been averaging a speed of about eighty miles an hour, when flying on a straight course. The Moth is so easy to guide that Broad is able to set the controls and read a book. He was met in the air to-day by Captain White, also flying a Moth, at a height of 4000 feet. He was then reading and eating sandwiches, while the machine flew itself.—British Official Wireless.