Endurance Flight

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 249, 20 August 1928, Page 2

Endurance Flight

BY MOTH AEROPLANE Australian and N.Z. Press Association. LONDON, Aug. 18. Captain H. S. Broad left Stag Lane in a Gipsy Moth, in an attempt to beat the existing light aeroplane endurance record. The flight is confined to the British Isles. The machine carried 24 hours fuel in the shape of 80 gallons of petrol, equivalent in weight to four men. Later. Captain Broad has been in the air for 17 hours. He is still flying around Edgeware at 5000 ft, beguiling the time by reading a book. He was so absorbed that he did not notice for some time aonther Moth which flew up to greet him. THE PILOT READS WHILE MACHINE FLIES ITSELF. i Australian and N.Z. Press Association, LONDON, August 17. Broad landed at Stagline at 5.30 o’clock, after completing twenty-four hours aloft, thus gaining the world’s endurance record for light ’planes. His engine ran perfectly, and the Moth practically flew by itself. Broad read three novels during the flight and kept a brief diary. Broad flew over Oxford, Gloucester, Margate, Sevenoaks, Huntingdon, Brooklands, Chelmsford, and Ipswich, a distance of 1500 miles.