A FAMILIAR ROUTE
SMITH COMING BACK
(Received March 27, 10 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith reported that the return flight was harder than the outward one, though it was shorter. "I am becoming so familiar with the crossing of the Tasman," he said, "that I plan to fly back to New Zealand, next year to visit the towns I had to overlook this time, Tho people are remarkably hospitable." Describing the flight Sir Charles said: "There was a following, surface wind, and to take advantage of this we flew close to the water. It was a decent trip all the way, except for the last fifty or hundred miles, where it was nasty flying, and the visibility was very bad.". '
Referring to tho landing, Sir Charles explained thatetho crowd which surrounded him made it impossible to taxi the Southern Cross to the club house. "We were completely surrounded, and I. marvel that someone was not hit by the propellers. As it was they punched holes in tho old bus."
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 72, 27 March 1933, Page 8
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