C.W.A. Scott and Campbell Black in a de Haviland Comet are leading in the Centenary air race and expect to reach Melbourne in 70 hours after their take off from Mildenhall. They covered the 4853 miles from Mildenhall to Allahabad in less than 26 hours, having assumed the lead after leaving Baghdad. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 285 wordsSir Charles Kingsford uSmith and Captain P. G. Taylor completed the first stage of their trans-Pacific flight to-day, ...
Article : 285 wordsAt the end of the first day, chief interest in the speed event centred in the six leaders. The mishap to the Mollisons' ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 424 wordsColonel Fitzmaurice. ...
Article : 7 wordsGillman and [?]aines. Wright and Polando. ...
Article : 11 wordsNeville Stack, Abbeville, 9.10 a.m. H. L. Book, Plessis, 9.15 a.m. Hewett and Kay, Boulogne. Parer and Hemsworth, Boulogne. ...
Article : 42 wordsA vast crowd welcomed the Mollisons when they landed here this evening. The aviators were surrounded by a cheering assembly. ...
Article : 498 wordsThen, came the news that the Mollisons had reached Baghdad, the first to do so on the flight. They landed at 7.10 p.m. amidst great enthusiasm, ...
Article : 290 wordsParmentier and Moll, in their Douglas monoplane, were the first to appear at Rome, landing a few minutes after 11.30. Woods and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 188 wordsPlanes engaged in the search for the missing air liner, Miss Hobart, have failed to discover any trace of the plane, and reports of oil having ...
Article : 115 wordsColonel J. C. Fitzmaurice (Irish Free State) withdrew from the race, after being called upon to make a big reduction in the weight of his ...
Article : 383 wordsOn arrival at Rome at 4.40 p.m. (G.M.T.) Wright said that if the conditions to-morrow on the next stage were as difficult, he would withdraw. ...
Article : 144 wordsRepresentatives of the Little Entente, Rumania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia, after a meeting in Belgrade, issued a communique ...
Article : 103 wordsThere had been five arrivals at Athens at 9 p.m. G.M.T., MacGregor and Walker arriving at 2.35 p.m., and Turner and Pangborn shortly ...
Article : 217 wordsParmentier and Roscoe Turner have left Allahabad and promise seriously to challenge Scott. It is believed that air conditions in Australia will ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Government of Jugo-Slavia has resigned to allow the Regency to appoint a new Cabinet, unfettered. Prince Paul will probably ...
Article : 35 wordsThe aviation correspondent of "The Sunday Express" says that the last thing Amy Mollison packed in the cabin or her flying kit was a packet ...
Article : 88 wordsAfter unsettled weather with mist in most places, conditions are improving, and are expected to be fair. ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Mon 22 Oct 1934, Page 1
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