FLYER HOPS OFF.
Making Attempt on Record to Australia. DEPARTURE FROM ENGLAND. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received October 19, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 18. Sydney Jackson, speedway rider, left Croydon on a flight to Australia today, in an Avro Avian machine fitted with extra tankage, giving it a range of 1500 miles. He hopes to reach Lyons to-night. ITe is maknig an attempt on the England-Australia record. Sydney Jackson is well-known in Australia as a dirt track rider, having competed at speedway meetings last 3*ear in Sydney. He was a FlightLieutenant in the R.A.F. Reserve, and has competed in the King , S'-%up Air race.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20440, 19 October 1934, Page 1
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