SOUTHERN CROSS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1929, Page 5

SOUTHERN CROSS

STARTS BIG FLY.

DERBY LEFT YESTERDAY.

(Australian Press Association)

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 28

Wireless messages fro m Southern Cross luue 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.Uitions wejn? good, with a starry night. ± hey were doing one hundred Knots at 8 p.m. and were then avcll over the Indian ocean, at an altitude of three thousand feet. There were a few Inimps, but all was O.K.

PROGRESS REPORT. (Received tins day at 9.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 28. The latest message? from the Southern Cross at 3 a.m. Sydney time, stated that all was well, speed 97 knots and altitude' oOOOft.; travelling by dead reckoning.

A wireless report at 6 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., stated that the Southern Cross was then flying over miles of jungle and expected to land (lefore .3 o’clock.

SMITH AND ULM

TO FLY THE ATLANTIC.

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

Smith and Ulin, 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 round the world sequence will be Madrid, thence to Sierra Leone, from where liev will cross tne Atlantic at practically the narrowest section to Itnambuco (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.