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...small Pilot Hinkler (5 ft. 4 in.) is best remembered for his 15�-day flight from England to Australia in 1928 (a record which stood for two years), although for years before that he had been doing astonishing things with light airplanes, among them the first non-stop flight from London to Turin in a 35 h. p. Baby Avro. For such exploits he was temporarily dubbed "Sir Jockey." Recently he was accorded casual notice for two remarkable solo flights, both in a light Puss Moth: New York to Kingston, Jamaica; and Natal, Brazil to Bathurst, British Gambia, West Africa?...
Even the English press failed to get excited about the first solo crossing of the South Atlantic. The reason, as seen by Editor Grey: "Bert Hinkler has a rooted prejudice against telling anybody that he is going to do anything before he does it. And that is not the way to become famous. . . . If you go and do a thing without telling the newspapers all about it beforehand, then, just out of spite, you get about four lines to say that it's been done...
Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler may be counted on to do the unexpected. He did it again last week. Three days after the British Ambassador effected Hinkler's release by Brazilian authorities, who had arrested him for flying "out of bounds'' (TIME. Nov. 30), Hinkler was out over the South Atlantic in his little 90-h. p. Puss Moth, alone as Lindbergh. Behind him lay the port of Natal; ahead of him a 1,600-mi. span to Africa which no airplane had yet flown eastward. In moonlight darkened by occasional squalls Pilot Hinkler flew...
Like Herndon & Pangborn, who ran -afoul of the Japanese authorities for flying over forbidden ground, Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler was arrested last week by local officials at Fortaleza, Brazil because he showed no authorization to fly over Brazilian territory and had "not sufficient proof of his identity." Pilot Hink-.ler's excuse was the same as the Pacific flyers': that an advance telegram of introduction, requesting courtesy of state air fields, was not delivered. Forgiven and forgiving, Flyers Herndon & Pangborn went last week to the Japanese Consulate in Manhattan and received the White Medal of Merit...
Smallest, Cheapest. It took Bert Hinkler 15½-days, cost him $250 to fly an 875-lb. Avro Avian from London to Australia three years ago. One Charles Butler completed the flight last week for $170 in a Comper Swift, supposedly the tiniest airplane in the world (weight about 500 lb.). Wearing carpet slippers for comfort, carrying a tomahawk for protection in case of a forced landing, Pilot Butler flew the 11,500 mi. in 9 days, 1 hr., 32 min., beating by about an hour the record of Charles William Anderson Scott...