stormy weather. With insufficient fuel to return to Rangoon, she carried on through driving rain and turbulence, relying on solely instruments at times, until she landed at Victoria Point. The rain meant she was unable to continue on to Alor Star, the planned final stop for the day. She flew to Alor Star the next day instead and after refueling there flew on to Salatar in Singapore to end day twelve. She was tracking well for her record attempt, being two days ahead of Johnson at the same stage of the flight. Media interest in her endeavour was increasing. Day thirteen's leg was to Batavia, in the Dutch East Indies. Fog delayed Batten's departure the next day but she eventually took off and, after refueling at Surabaya, flew to Rambang on Lombok Island. Day fourteen was a single leg of two hours to Timor, during which she had to deal with fallout from a volcanic eruption on Flores Island. When she landed at Kupang, she was only from Australia. Batten's trip was now front-page headlines in London. The final leg, on 23 May 1934, involved a flight across the Timor Sea to Darwin. Batten anticipated a flight time of around six hours but miscalculated, resulting in some anxious moments until the Australian landmass was sighted. She landed at Darwin's aerodrome at 1:30pm. Her trip time of 14 days, 22 hours and 30 minutes had beaten Johnson's record by over four days. The breaking of Johnson's record was front-page news around the world and there was extensive and generally effusive reporting on Batten's feat by mainstream newspapers. However, The Times pointed out that the feat was achieved simply by spending less time on the ground and it saw little merit in record flights such as Batten's. The aeronautical press was also more restrained, with Flight magazine crediting improvements in ground facilities as a factor in her achievement. While Batten's successful solo flight was only the third to be made by a woman flying from Europe to Australia, the general route had already been flown thirty times and the overall record for a solo England to Australia flight stood at seven days, five hours, achieved by Kingsford-Smith the previous year. Much of the appeal for the public was due to Batten's beauty and glamour which was in contrast to Johnson's more down-to-earth nature. Australian tour Staying the night at Darwin, Batten commenced