The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-23
British Flyers Are
 Winners OF Race
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contracted on the way.
 we have had only two hours sleep since we left Englald," he said. We had chicken wing to eat at Darwin.
 When we crossed the Bay of Bengal (which they had been warned not to dol there were low clouds and constant rain for 1,400 miles. The visibility was the worst I ever experienced. We had to fly for hours only a few feet over the water.
 Was Plain He'll
 "And it was plain hell crossing the Timor Sea. It was terrible. The night was black as could be. Then the engine failed. It was touch and go and we buckled on our life belts.
 From then on we could depend on only one engine. Black was liv- erish all the way from Singapore and we quarrelled all the time. I was never more pleased than at the sight of Australia. We made only 120 miles an hour on the last , stage.
 Ut was a lousy trip and that's praising it.''
 The big Dutch Douglas plane, which only six weeks ago was shipped from the United States to Holland, was on the last stage of the trip as Scott and Black re- ceived messages of congratulation which included one from Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald of Great Britain.
 The Dutch plane, built at Santa Monica, Calf, is stock type for passenger service. 1t has two 750- horsepower Wright cyclone motors. It holds 14 passengers. It is going into the Amsterdam Batavia Ser vice, 9,025 miles trip.
 Its crew had insisted they are just out for demonstration of the comfort of air travel.
 The old record between England and Australia is days, IT hours, 56 minutes. Scott and Black made utes IS seconds to Darwin, first and the Big Douglas, with six peo- pie aboard, made it to Darwin in 9 days, 16 hours, 25 minutes, 30 seconds.
 Seven hours and forty-six min- utes behind the Dutch entry. Ros- COG Turner and Clyde Pangborn came in from the shark infested Timor Sea to land at Darwin.
 They made the England-Austra- lia flight in 72 hours 15 minutes from their start at Mildenhall at 6:31 a. m. GMT (1:31 a. m. EST) Saturday. They broke the old re- cord by days, IF hours, Al sec- onds.
 Turner and Pangborn had trou- ble with their oil system between Kupang, on Timor Island, and Darwin, they hoped to finish third.
 Those in the Rear
 Behind Turner and Pangborn were Lieutenant Cathcart Jones and Ken Waller. Great Britain, in De Haviland Comet like the win ming plane. They arrived at Bata- via, Java, at 7:23 a. m. to-day (2:3S a. m. EST) Their motors were not in good shape and they planned to stay over a day. Next were Malcolm MacEregor and Henry Waller, Great Britain, in a Miles Hawk. They left Call cutta at 7:15 a. m. GMT (2:15 a. m. EST).
 John H. Wright and John Po- lando. Americans in the American Lambert monocoupe Baby Ruth, smallest plane in teh race, arrived at Baghdad, Irak, at 7:28 g. m. (2;2S a. p1. EST). They were de- termined to finish. They have had bad luck. They reached Aleppo. yesterday after limping along the Syrian coast with a feed pipe clog ged and their motor missing. But they landed, to the amazement of the natives, after stunting daringly over the field.
 Undismayed, Wright and Polan- do in their tiny plane left Bagh- dad at 10 a. m. GMT to-day 6 .. m. EST).