Flying full-out through bad weather in a last dash for Melbourne, Parmentier and Moll veered off their course late last night and ...
Article : 307 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester this evening sent the following telegram from the Royal train to the Governor of ...
Article : 82 wordsC. W. A. Scott and T. Campbell Black, flying a De Havilland Comet monoplane, won the Centenary Air Race. They flashed over the finishing line at the Flemington racecourse at 3.35 p.m. yesterday, two days 23 hours after having left Mildenhall, England. They averaged 185 miles an hour for the journey of 11,323 miles. ...
Article : 184 wordsGliding swiftly into the wind, the De Havilland Comet barely cleared the fence at the south-west corner of the aerodrome at Laverton, and made an excellent ...
Article : 773 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Governor-General (Sir Isaac Isaacs) sent the following message to Mr. Scott to-day:— "I offer you and Mr. Campbell Black, as ...
Article : 109 words"A stout showing on Scott's part," said Sir Charles Kingsford-smith, when interviewed by the Fiji "Times." "I am very glad to see it. I have a shade more ...
Article : 104 wordsOne hundred thousand wildly excited persons greeted Mr. C. W. A. Scott and Captain T. Campbell Black with cheers, cooees, and whistles as they flashed across ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,744 wordsWaller and Jones (Eng.) reached Batavia from Singapore at 5.33 p.m. to-day (Melbourne time), but were delayed there by engine trouble, which had shown ...
Article : 180 wordsTired, husky, and limping with cramp, [?]C. W. A. Scott was in good spirits last [?]t after his arrival, and showed no [?]of the nervous strain which he had ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 523 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday. — The news of the arrival in Melbourne of Mr. C. W. A. Scott and Captain Campbell Black was announced in the Legislative Assembly by ...
Article : 71 wordsScott's heroic persistence has aroused enthusiasm everywhere from Sandringham, where His Majesty receives regular bulletins from the Air Ministry to be noted ...
Article : 345 wordsCHARLEVILLE, Tuesday.—Hundreds of people saw the Dutch Douglas 'plane, carrying a crew of four and three passengers, come in from Darwin to-night. ...
Article : 181 wordsThe New Zealand competitors, MacGregor and Walker, are making a bold bid to gain second place in the handicap event behind Parmentier and Moll. They ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. T. Campbell Black's mother is an Australian, and they have many relatives in Victoria. Yesterday a Melbourne business man, an intimate friend of the family, ...
Article : 153 wordsAs a consequence of the magnificent flight by Mr. C. W. A. Scott and Captain T. Campbell Black, cartoons from "Punch" have been ...
Article : 185 wordsDARWIN, Tuesday.-Colonel Roscoe Turner and his co-pilot, Clyde Pangborn, landed at Fanny Bay aerodrome in their all-metal Boeing (Warner Bros.' Comet) ...
Article : 293 wordsA basket piled with beautiful roses, lilies, and carnations was received by the Air Race Committee at the Town Hall yesterday, bearing the message:— ...
Article : 62 wordsJ. A. and Mrs. Mollison are delayed at Allahabad with engine trouble. One engine is reported to have seized badly. When they landed at Jubbulpore no grades ...
Article : 224 wordsThe astonishing rapidity with which the time necessary for a flight from England to Australia has been reduced by developments in aircraft ...
Article : 170 wordsCHARLEVILLE (Q.), Tuesday.—Parmentier and Douglas landed here in the gathering darkness at 6.45 p.m. There was some discussion before their arrival ...
Article : 284 wordsR. Parer, the Australian, who has had engine trouble, is still at Le Bourget, on the coast of France, but he[?]intends going on to Melbourne. ...
Article : 107 wordsLondon received the news of Scott's arrival at 5:38 a.m. (3.38 p.m. Melbourne time) as the light of dawn was appearing behind the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. ...
Article : 76 words[?] his departure from Mildenhall [?] asked Miss Florence Desmond, the [?] to marry him. [?] Desmond said at breakfast-time ...
Article : 107 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Amsterdam correspondent reports that there is tremendous interest in the flight throughout Holland. Crowds surge the streets and ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 24 Oct 1934, Page 7
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