AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1930, Page 5

AVIATION

FLIGHTS TO AUSTRALIA’

THREE EXPECTED AT DARWIN

{[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.!

SYDNEY, October' 17

The progress of Matthews’, Hill's and Kingsford Smith’s flights from England to Australia is causing considerable interest in Australia.

A number of well-known Australian aviators, including Ulm, Owen and Brain, have already flown to Darwin to welcome the speeding airmen, who are expected there during the weekend. c SMITH LEAVES SINGAPORE. : __ ‘MI SINGAPORE, October 16./ Wing-Commander Kingsford Smith has left for Sourabaya. SMITH AND HILL. LONDON, October 17. Newspapers are now giving prominence to Wing-Commander Kingsford Smith’s flight, some of them predicting he will have a neck and neck finish with Hill. The ‘.‘Daily Telegraph” says:—The flight to Australia offers a most powerful appeal to the imagination. It is a most formidable feat in aerial navigation. It is the. sternest of tests for both pilot and machine, but Bert Hinkler’s flight will always remain unique, whether his record (15 days) is broken or otherwise. Not only was he his own mechanic, but in many of i is stages there was practically no ground organisation. The Australian flight, unlike some tests, is a highlv useful one, and much knowhdge is being accumulated by the pioneers in the chartering of strange regions in the endeavour to put a girdle round the earth.

HILL’S BID TO BE FIRST. BIMA, October 17;. 1 The airman Hill, has arrived here, and he left again for Atamba at' 11.80 to-day. He is expecting to' fly to Australia :V GARDEN STARTS AGAIN. ' LONDON, October 17. The aviator Garden left Lympe. a t 6.17 this morning. SYDNEY, October 17. ! An acquaintance in Sydney says the airman Garden left England for .New Zealand when ten years of age, and he is now about 26. He came to Australia in 1927, and engaged in motoring business. He is regarded as a clever mechanic. It is believed his family reside in Christchurch. RETURN ATLANTIC FLY. (Received this dav Bt 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Oet, 17. Boyd and Connor will make a return Atlantic flight in the first week in November, starting .from Baldonnell in the Columbia. HILL DUE AT DARWIN. (Received 10.0 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Hill is due at Danvin early this morning. He is making a nigJ.it flight from Atamboea. SMITH DUE ON SUNDAY. SYDNEY, This Day. A radio broadcast by Kingsford Smith at Sourabaya was received in Sydney. The airman stated he would be in Darwin about three on Sunday afternoon.