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Last April Charles William Anderson Scott, a rangy young man who was once champion boxer of the Royal Air Force, landed his Gipsy-Moth at Port Darwin, Australia 9 days 3 hr. 20 min. after leaving Kent, England. His time just beat the record of Wing-Commander Kingsford-Smith; but Lieut. Scott wearily declared: "I wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds." Last week Lieut. Scott arrived back in England. His time from Australia was 10 days, 23 hr.-nearly two days better than Kingsford-Smith's record for that direction. Ill from exhaust fumes...
...Angmagsalik in March to relieve Courtauld. They searched in vain for his hut in the snow, finally had to return for more supplies. Once again Watkins went to get his friend (who had provisions to last only until May 1) and failed again. (The expedition's two little Moth planes were out of commission.) Then in London, great activity began. Capt. Ralph Raynor of the British Royal Signal Corps, who is engaged to marry young Courtauld's sister, organized a relief expedition with the unlimited backing of the elder Courtauld. He hired Capt. Albin Ahrenberg, Swedish flyer...
...killed six. Lately he bought a specially built Lockheed monoplane, flew it from London to Cape Town in 6 1/2 days for a record, despite a crackup in Africa. Last week Commander Kidston and his friend Capt. T. A. Gladstone were flying from Johannesburg to Natal in a Puss Moth biplane. They encountered a duststorm in the Drakensberg Mountains. A wing was wrenched off. Commander Kidston and friend crashed. Both died...
...Felton Vesey Holt was made Air Vice Marshal, placed in command of air defenses last month. (He had been in charge of the staff which examined the wreckage of the R-101.) Last week Air Vice Marshal Holt reviewed the flying forces at Tangmere Airdrome, Sussex, flew in a Moth biplane with Flight Lieut. Henry Moody. One of the ten planes escorting him dropped out of place, edged close to the Moth, brushed wings with it, sent it crashing. Vice Marshal Holt was killed; so was Lieutenant Moody-37th member of the Royal Air Force to be killed by accident...
...Flying Club has made plans to purchase a new training ship, which is to be delivered early in March. The aeroplane, which is a Travelair Trainer, has two cockpits, double controls, and is powered by a Curtis Wright Gypsy motor. It will supplant the Gypsy Moth which is now being used for training members who have not yet passed their license tests. The club owns another machine, a Curtis Robin, which was bought only last October, and which is now being used for cross-country work. The new one will be kept with the others either at the Boston airport...