SOUTHERN CROSS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1929, Page 4

SOUTHERN CROSS

STARTS BIG FLY.

DERCY LEFT YESTERDAY.

(Australian Press Association)

(Received this day at 8 a.m.)

SYDNEY, June 28. Wireless messages 'from Southern Cross lime been received, saying they took off from Derby at 5.40 in the afternoon local time, corresponding with 7.40 p.m. Sydney time. Flying c/i.uitiuii.s weji-e good, with a starry night. j hey were doing one hundred Knots at 8 p.m. and were then well over the Indian ocean, at an altitude of three thousand feet. There were a few humps, but all was O.K.

PROGRESS REPORT. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.)

SYDNEY, June 28. I lie latest message from the Southern Cress at 3 a.m. Sydney time, stated that all was well, speed 97 knots and altitude' 5000 ft.; travelling by dead reckoning.

A wirclc ss report at 5 a.m. stated they were doing 110 miles and expected to land between 2 and 3 p.m.

The latest wireless, received at 1.30 p.m., staled that the Southern Cross nils then flying over miles of jungle and expected to land before 3 o’clock.

SMITH AND ULM

TO FLY THE ATLANTIC.

(Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) SYDNEY, Juno 28.

Smith and Ulm, in the Southern Cross, intend to fly the Atlantic after he completion of their business in London. If their plans work out to schedule the first stop in the last flight ound the world sequence will be Madrid, thence to Sierra Leone, from where bey will cross me Atlantic at practically the narrowest section to Rnambuco (Brazil). The route will then he north to Panama, across the Gulf to Miami, thence direct to New York. There is every prospect of the monoplane being sold in the United States.