FROM LONDON TO AUSTRALIA BY AEROPLANE 



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Photograph by F. B. .McDowell 



ONK OF THE SHRINES OF THE SIIWF DAGON PAGODA : RANGOON, BURMA 



This, the finest and most venerable place of worship in all Indo-China, attracts pilgrims from 

 Cambodia, Siam, Korea, and Ceylon, as well as from all Burma. 



had arrived on the same day, both en- 

 gaged in a race half-way around the 

 world ! After attending to the machine 

 we dined at the R. A. F. mess, thoroughly 

 tired but extremely happy. Half the 

 journey was completed and Poulet was 

 within range. 



FROM BASRA TO DFFHI 



We had left Basra at 6 a. m. on No- 

 vember 23 and arrived at Delhi fifty-four 

 hours later, covering a distance of 2,100 

 miles. Out of the fifty- four hours we 



had spent twenty-five hours ten minutes 

 actually in the air, and in the balance we 

 had overhauled the engines and machine 

 twice, and had by our own efforts filtered 

 two and three-quarter tons of petrol into 

 the machine. I had intended pushing on 

 to Allahabad next day, but on arrival at 

 the aerodrome we were feeling the effects 

 of the past strenuous days so severely 

 that I decided that rest was imperative. 

 AW' took it — in the form of the proverbial 

 change of work — and, putting in six 

 good hours on the machine, made everv- 



