Hinkler left Wiltshire at 1.10: this afternoon in the Fokker monoplane, Princess Xenia, on a non-stop flight Indi The machine ig fitted. with Bristol-Jupiter engine and carr 800 gallons of gasolene.
are carrying sandwiches, bis~ malt extracts, hot coffee and tea and cold water.
'The flight isa private' venture, but the Air Ministry is sympathe> tically interested.
Nov. 15, Though 15 hours have elapsed since Captain McIntosh started on his non-stop flight to India no reports have been received regarding the whereabouts of the Princess la. The machine does not carry, 4 wireless set, Very great interest is evinced by the public in th effort to wrest the long-dis non-stop flight record of 8,900 miles, which is held by the trans-Atlantic flyers, Clarence Chamberlin and Charles Levine, expecially after the bad luck attending Flight-Lieut Ant Carrs three attempts to erento record.
Captain McIntosh and his friends have contributed every penny of their capital for the flight except the last £500, which came from two Midland business men—Reuter,
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