IN THE AIR.
r AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. OAUt/E ASSOOIA'ITOnJ THE FLYERS. LONDON, Nov. 12. Captain Ross-Smith’s brother, Lieut Keith Smith, and the Australian Sergt Bennett and Sergt Thris are accompanying the pilot as mechanics. Captain Smith assured the Australian Press Association that lie was confident that with ordinary luck and weather, lie could accomplish the journey in the specified time. Ho hoped to reach Lyons at three on Wednesday. His next stage would ho Rome and then he would go on to Athens, and on to Egypt, Mesopotamia and India. Smith added:—“l know the Egypt and Indian portion of the route owing to my experience in accompanying General Salmond from Cairo to Calcutta.” The airman and his men were accorded a stirring send off. Prince Albert, General Seeley and General Sykes sent messages wishing him all good luck in his sporting flight.
AVIATOR IN STORM: SYDNEY, Nov. 14. Lieut. Pickles, while aeroplaning from Broken Hill to Sydney, was delayed by storms, including a. monster hail storm. The hail stones cut over a hundred holes,; three inches in size, in Iwings' of the machine.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1919, Page 3
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182IN THE AIR. Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1919, Page 3
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