KINGSFORD SMITH

Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1933, Page 5

KINGSFORD SMITH

MORE BIG FLIGHTS

TRIP TO ENGLAND IN AUGUST.

(Australian Press Association.)

(Received this day at 9.45 a.m.)

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith is already planning more long flights. The first will be in June when he will take eight or ten passengers on a round-Australia tourist flight, lasting for about one month, and in August, He plans to fiy the Southern Cross to England, taking eight passengers. Taylor and Pethyridge wjll be the relief pilots when the Southern Cross returns to England. Smith will fly a Pereival Gull plane to all the European capitals.

Taylor wliljl pilot the. Southern Cross on its return journey, and Smith intends to give the monoplane a few days start and then catch it up in the Pereival Gull in time to reach Australia with the Southern CroSB.

MISS BATTEN’S VENTURE,

WELLINGTON, Match 27.

Messrs C. 0. Wakefield and Co. have received advice from England, stating that Miss Jean Batten, an Aucklander, who secured her pilot’s license in England in 1830, plans to leave England on April 10, in a Gypsy Moth aeroplane, for Australia.

MOLLTSON’S BAGHDAD FLIGHT

LONDON, March 27.

The “Daily Herald” ea y s that Mollison’s Baghdad flight will be attempted next month. The Dragon aeroplane is equipped with special tanks, accommodates seven passengers, and include 6 a tiny compartment where one pilot will he able to sleep. '