FLIGHT TO ENGLAND
THE SOUTHERN CROSS, SIX WEEKS THERE AND BACK. NEW PLYMOUTH, March 4. ' Dew,..-/ or bir Glumes Kingsford Smith’s forthcoming passenger flight from Australia to England next August were announced at a meeting of the New Plymouth Aero Club committee last evening. A letter was received from Mr- Wilfred Smith, brother of Sir Charles, and tour manager, which stated that there was room in the Southern Cross for eight passengers, each limited /to 50 lb of luggage. The trip would take six -wee Ks. Approximately two' weeks would be taken on the trip Home, two weeks would be spent in-England, and two weeks on the flight back to. Australia. The journey would commence and finish a t Sydney. The fare was which included a first-class boat fare from New Zealand to Sydney end back. Passengers would be requireu to pay their own. board en route, but this charge was guaranteed not to, exceed £ls each way. Already, two ap-; plication for seats on the monoplane had been received.
The charts used on the flight of the Southern Cross across the Tasman, showing the route mapped out by Captain P, G. Taylor navigator; on the flight, was received at the meeting. The chart will be kept by the club as a memento of the flight, “I am sending along a chart . with our track on it,” stated Cap-tain Taylor in a covering letter, “It does not show the actual positions from time to time, as they vvero arrived at by dend reckoning and sun observation ' separately, and cannot be laid down; at one line for the very logical reason, that they do not agree In point- of/fact, they never do either in the air or au sea. It is therefore necessary t’o deduce the actual track from a combination of both. I have done this anti laid down what I believe to be the tnio track of the Southern Cross-.
“The marks- on the chart are not strictly in , accordance with -thp/. best traditions, which require a chart.'to ;be kept clean and ■ free. . front,’ marks. However, they are honest scars/ received in ; a somewhat, unconventional chart room, so, we can - let,if f go at that.” . . -**■ j
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1933, Page 7
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367FLIGHT TO ENGLAND Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1933, Page 7
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