Miss Jean Batten, who now holds the records for trips between Australia and England and vice versa, by flying from Australia to England in 5 days 20 hrs. 46 min, must by now be quite familiar with the route which she has now covered four times. In 1934 flying from England to Australia she made the trip in fourteen days, returning in 1935 she took 17 days 15 hrs. 15 min. being the first woman to make the return solo flight between the two countries, In November, 1935, she made the South Atlantic record flight from Dakar to Port Natal in Brazil, a distance of 2,000 miles in 13%hrs, In 1936, back again on her old route she flew from England to Australia in 5 days 21 hrs. 3 min. and by her latest performance has established records for the journey both ways, breaking Mr. Broadbent's record for Australia to England of 6 days 10 hrs. 55 min, When times such as these are compared with that of Miss Amy Johnson, now Mrs, Mollison, who was the first womán pilot to fly from England to Australia in stages, of 19 days in 1930 some very fair indication is given of the wonderful improvements that have taken place in flying in the short space of the last seven years, Miss Batten in her first flight used a D. H. Moth machine with a Gipsy engine, but in her subsequent flights appears to have favoured the Percival Gull aeroplane, which has been responsible for some very fine perfor-manees by other aviators.
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