MORE LONG FLIGHTS
KINGSFORD SMITH'S PLANS
TOUR IN SOUTHERN GROSS
(Received March 28,111 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith is already planning more long flights. The ! first will be in June, when he will take eight or ten passengers on a round-Aus-tralia tourist flight, lasting about a month, and in August he intends to fly the Southern Cross to England, taking eight passengers. Captain Taylor and Mr. Pethybridge 'will be the relief pilots.
j While the Southern Cross remains in England Sir Charles will fly a Percival Gull aeroplane to all the European capitals. Captain Taylor will pilot the Southern Cross on the return journey. Sir Charles intends to give the monoplane a few days' start, and then catch it up in the Percival Gull, in time to reach Australia with the Southern Cross.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 73, 28 March 1933, Page 7
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136MORE LONG FLIGHTS Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 73, 28 March 1933, Page 7
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