AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1928, Page 3

AVIATION

southern cross. ! (By Telegraph—Per Press Associplion.) - , ! J CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. )4The airmen will spend aboip a month in Australia and then leave for America, personally to thank Contain G. A. Hancock for the gift of ' tlio Southern Cross. The plane may bo sliipped to Honolulu and then be flown to America. The plane \ will eventually he returned to Australia and 'will probably find a home in one of the museums. i | THE AIRMEN’S INTENTIONS. RETURN TRIP TO RE INi DAYLIGHT. 1 CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. j 4. Leaving Wigrnm Aerodrome i at dawn the Southern Cross will make its return trip to Australia in daylight. The plane may not reach Richmond aerodrome until after dark (but ; n safe landing will Hie made because the flyers are familiar with the lay out of the landing ground. These avo jtlie plans of Kingsford Smith and U'm. Smith stated this morning that (following on a careful inspection of (tlio aerodrome grounds, he was convinced that the Southern Cross could take off •from there. They would require about half a mile run. ' “We have had quito enough of night, flying,” added the airman, jin stating that he anil Ulm had decided definitely that their return trip to Australia in the Southern Cross would he made in tho daylight.

SUCCESSFUL NON-STOP FLIGHT. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13.;

Art Goebel, the winner of the Hawaiian flight, won the first prize of twelve thousand five hundred dollars in the New York to Los Angeles nonjstop flight, covering the distance in twenty-three hours fifty minutes.