AROUND AUSTRALIA IN 44 DAYS

Former acting Chief of the Air Staff, Wing Commander SJ (‘Jimmy’) Goble, and pilot, Flying Officer Ivor McIntyre, spent 44 days in 1924, following Australia’s coastline in an anti-clockwise direction in their single-engine Royal Australian Air Force Fairey III D seaplane serialled A10-3, after launching from Point Cook (Victoria).  The airmen managed to complete 93