ITALY TO BROOME
A SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT. PERTH, June I. Depincdo landed at Brot-rae at one o’clock iu the afternoon, Having left Koepang at seven in the morning. He thus covered 570 miles in six hours. Depincdo said that over the first stage from Brindisi to Alexandria conditions were good, but from there to Bagdad the air wtis bumpy. The machine behaved wonderfully from Bagdad to Karachi. He had an uncomfortable journey from Bombay to Calcutta, having to keep at a height of 9000 feet. Rangoon to Penang was the worst stretch. It rained continual'y, rad v-"s always cloudy. He had to fly iffy low for seven hinis. Con(luring the flight from Koepang to Broome were the best experience on the trip. He said that the object of his flight was purely a sporting one. Altogether the conditions had been better than he had expected. He will overhaul his machine at Melbourne, and then proceed to Japan and back to Italy via Northern India. Received June 1, 10.10 p.m. PERTH, June 1. ' The Italian airman. Depinendo, has I left Broome for Onslow on route to - Perth.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19325, 2 June 1925, Page 5
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185ITALY TO BROOME Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19325, 2 June 1925, Page 5
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