IN THE AIR

Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1933, Page 5

IN THE AIR

ULM CANCELS FLY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. (United Press i jsociation—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 29. Ulm has abandoned his Atlantic ilight. He start s on October 16 back to Australia with Taylor and Allen, hoping to reach Darwin in ten clays, and then to devote his attention to the forthcoming mail contracts. KIXGSFORD SMITH. (Received this day at 9.32 a. in.) LONDON, September 29. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith plans to depart for Australia on October 7. RETURN BY STEAMER. (Received this day at 9.32 a.ni.) LONDON, September 29. The aviator Woods, who flew from Australia to England, i s returning to Perth Iby th« steamer next week. A PLEASURE FLY.' (Received this day at 9.32 a.m.) LONDON, September 29.

Mr William Pomeroy Oxford Greene, M.P. for the city of Worcester, •has chartered a Spartan monoplane •with three Gipsy-Major engines to tnko himself and two or three friends to Australia on a pleasure trip. Thi? is the first occasion on which an aero plane has been -chartered to take pas senders to Australia. He leaves England an October 9 and is due at Sydney on October 29 NEW ALTITUDE RECORD. PARIS, September 28. Gustav Lemoine, flying an eight hundred horsepower Poetz aeroplane, claims to have ascended to a height of 45,275 feet .thus beating the English man. Unwin’s record of 43,971 feet.