The Archive · 1930

Making Good Time

London, May 11, Miss Johnson left Karachi to-day for Allahabad. She hopes to proceed. via Calcutta and Singapore.

She reached Karachi yesterday after six days' flight, thereby estab-Ushing a fresh record for the distance by a solo flyer. She was then two days ahead of the schedule of Bert Hinkler, who holds the record for the quickest flight to Australia, Her most exciting experience so far occurred between Baghdad and Bender Abbas, when she encountered an extremely violent sand-storm. She decided to land, but her machine was blown about on the round until she blocked the wheels with her luggage. For a time she could see only six yards shead, when the weather cleared found she had landed on the only smooth patch for miles—Wireless through Reuter.

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