An item referred to the magazine R.U.S.I. dated November 1934 reporting that 3 Rangoon flying boats flew from Basra via Karatsji (Pakistan), Udaipur (British Indies), Allahabad (British Indies), Chittagong (British Indies now Bangladesh), Rangoon (Burma now Myanmar), Singapore, Batavia (Dutch East Indies), Darwin (Australia), Sydney (Australia) towards Melbourne (Australia). It was the first time that flying boat flew such a long course above land.