ANOTHER FLIGHT.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 375, 17 March 1932, Page 1

ANOTHER FLIGHT.

Flying-Officer Scott’s New Plan. HOPES TO BREAK RECORD. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 15. The airman, Flying-Officer C. W. A. Scott, will set out at the week-end to win back the light aeroplane record for a flight from Britain to Australia. The tamous Gypsy Moth in which he made bis previous flight, will take off from Lympne at dawn on Sunday. “I am going to make a big difference tc the record this time, if I have any said Mr Scott. "If weather conditions are good for the first 2000 miles it will afford a really good chance of knocking off a fair lump.” Mr Scott’s associates hinj; at his aiming at lowering Mr C. A. Butler’s record by a day. Mr Scott will probably also try to regain the record for the return flight, which Mr J. A. Mollison holds. Flying-Officer Scott was born in London in 1903. He served with the Royal Air Force before going to Queensland in 192/ to join the Qantas service as a pilot. While with Qantas Flying-Officer Scott made some memorable flights. At the end of 1930 he left Australia for England to make an attempt to lower the England-Australian record. On April 10, 1931, Flying-Officer Scott landed at Darwin nine days three hours and twenty-five minutes after having left England, thus reducing the record held by Air-Commodore Kingsford Smith by eighteen hours fifteen minutes. In November Mr Butler established the present record.