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BACKER OF COMET PLANE LOST MONEY, BUT IS SATISFIED
Expects Changes Before S.A. Centenary
While C.W.A. Scott and Campbell Black are objects of hero worship in Adelaide equally with the rest of Australia, the man who made their success in the air race possible arrived unheralded in the express from Melbourne today. He is Mr. A.O. Edwards, the owner of Grosvenor House, London, and the nominator of the red Comet plane in which the epoch-making flight to Australia was made. The race was as much an adventure to Mr. Edwards as it was to his pilots. He left London with no more tangible evidence that he was the owner of an aeroplane than a photograph of the factory drawings of the design, and an agreement with two aviators, who were almost strangers to him, to fly it to Australia. “To win suc
