ENDURANCE FLIGHT.
SMITH AND POND READY. (BT CABLE—PBESB ASSOCIATION—COPIBIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
(Received December Bth, 7.45 p.m.)
SAN FRANCISCO, December 7
It is announced that Captain Kings ford Smith and Lieutenant Pond will make a third attempt at an endurance flight record at seven to-morrow (Thursday) morning. A i'orce of mechanics under the dilection of Flight-Engineer Saltzman worked almost continuously from Sunday evening until to-day on a new rudder for the aeroplane, which -vas then tested under varying load conditions. .
Lieutenant Pond, on descending said the flutter had virtually disappeared.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19179, 9 December 1927, Page 9
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