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England-Australia (solo), 1929-30 —Francis C. Chichester on a D.H. "Moth" ("Gipsy"). Left Croydon December 20. Arrived Port Darwin January 25 (or 27). Time 5 weeks. The "bespectacled, adventurous, somewhat gauche but determined young man" was suprised by the fame the flight brought him. "I was only trying to achieve a private target which I had set myself" |
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