for Scott Melbourne, Oct 22.
The Australian public is hoping that the King will recognize Mr.
A. Scott's epic Might by awarding him a. knighthood—an honour which Queen Wilhelmina fof the Netherlands bestowed on the entire crew of the second plane. fs in Race The British airmen, OWA. Scott and T.. Campbell Black won the London-Melbourne race, being the first to arrive at the Laverton aerodrome at 8.4 am.
The Netherlands airmen, K. D. Parmentier and. J. J. Moll, left Charleville for Melbourne at ten Srelock that morning and were Second to arrive, landing at Al-
Dury Face course The American airmen, Col Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pang born, hopped off from Port Darwin for Charleville, 167 miles from Melbourne, at 842/ am, fas if they had travelled on @ magic carpet' \""In" teaching Port Darwin hours 26 minutes, they clipped more than four days from the record held by Charles Ulm, the Australian air~ man, who covered the same journey in_six days 17 hours and 45 minutes The victors left Port Darwin at 135 GMT. yesterday afternoon and reached ihe last control point, Char= Teville, at 1040 pam. G.M-T. Here the two Gypsy engines of their Comet were given a rapid overhaul, all" points were carefully inspected and the machine "drank" only sum-lent fuel to reach Melbourne, so. to enable better speed to be made.
The engine with which they left Port Darwin with only. five out of six cylinders firing, "conked out" again on the way to Charleville and the airmen consequently had the use of only one engine for the greater part of the hop. At Charleville, hiechanies worked feverishly, but the engine was still sluggish when Scott and his companion took off, although it sounded as if it were picking Up. When news of their departure from Charleville reached Melbourne, great crowds began to stream out to the Laverton aerodrome to await" the winning plane.
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