SMITHY'S PLANS
ENGLAND-AUSTRALIA
FLIGHT
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening Post.")
MASTERTON, This Day.
Speaking in Masterton last night, Mr. Jack Pereival, a member of Sir .Charles Kingsford Smith's party on the Tasman flight of the Southern Cross last month, said that as an outcome or feir Charles Kingsford Smith's consultation with meteorological authorities in this country, the prospects of flying the Southern Cross back across the Tas-1 man were now bright. Since coming to this country the Southern Cross had put In about eighty flying hours, and had taken about two thousand New Zealanders aloft. As soon as possible after he returned to Australia, Sir . Charles Kingsford Smith would go to England to take over •the agency for the Pereival Seagull aeroplane and make another attempt on the England to Australia record Sir Charles thought h© could bring the time down to about eight days. The next big'ocean flight probably would be from- Capetown to Fremantle. At present there was no aeroplane fit to carry enough petrol for this long journey, but Sir Charles had ■ plans, and while in England would examine all available machines to see if one could be found equal to the task.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 32, 8 February 1933, Page 9
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197SMITHY'S PLANS Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 32, 8 February 1933, Page 9
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