SWISS BROTHERS
FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA LONDON, A!ay 27. The most novel flight Io Australia yet undertaken was commenced on May 20, when a ninetocn-year-old Swiss, Alfons Breitenbach, who secured a joint’s certificate, when aged 16, and his brother, Carl, left Zurich in a monoplane. Alfons is an accomplished organist, and will give recitals in the capital cities of Australia. Ho intends making the Tim* • Sen crossing alone, sending his brother on the steamer in order to allow tho machine to carry the maximum quantity of
petrol. The brothers were, last report at Constantinople.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 125, 30 May 1932, Page 7
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