KINGSFORD SMITH
FORTHCOMING FLIGHT
CTTRaSTCH URCH,; May 17!
Sir Charles Kingston] Smith will make another fast flight from England .to : Australia next . Sep.ember, or earlier,-, according to cabled advice "received, by the Vadium Oil Co.':Ho-day. Sir- Cliaxles will use tlu* latest type- of; light aeroplane, a Poreival Gull, which, i#., .fitted with the new Napier sixcylinder engine made by this famous firm ;. -
-Sir - Charles has taken over the Aus-.fra-Jiiui and New Zealand agency for the Gul), which was designed by Captain. Edgar. Pei-cival, an Australian. The machine Ims proved a great succss- in Britain.
The route to be taken on the. flight wiM be from Lympne, via- Brindisi, Bagdad, Karachi, Calcutta, A-lor Star and Snurabaya to Wvndham. The machine has a toji speed of Ho miles an hour and a cruising speed of 142 mi'es. It can cany sufficient petrol to travel 1 Cf)o miles without re-fuell-ing lienee the long stages have been mapped out.
The C'ii'l is a low -wing monoplane and, fitted for ordinary use carries a pilot, two passengers and fuel for 550 miles without- trouble. The engine is rated at 150 horse-power, but actually develops much more.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1933, Page 6
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