KINGSFORD SMITH

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1933, Page 5

KINGSFORD SMITH

FLIGHT RESUMED

FASTER FLIGHTS YET FORECAST. (Australian Press Association). SYDNEY, October 13. A message from Wyndham states Sir 0. Kingsford Smith left there at 8.7 a.in. local time. He expects to reach Brisbane on Saturday, Sydney on 'Sunday and Melbourne next Monday. 'file nervous exhaustion from which ho was .suffering in the early stages of the- trip lias completely disappeared. The officials of the Wyn-dliani mentworks entertained him last night. Sir (J. Kingsford Smith, in the course of a speech on the occasion, declared that Wyndham lias outstanding claims as the first- port of entry for aeroplanes from overseas as it is one hundred miles closer than Dar- j win, and needs the crossing of three hundred miles less water than the Darwin route. He added that his record i.s bound to be shattered by competitors in the Centenary Air Race, but be thought that the machine which would beat bis record would

be one definitely out of the light plane class. The Prime Minister has received His Majesty, the King's congratulations for Sir O. Kingsford Smith, (Received this -day at 10.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 13,

•Smithy lauded at C'a moo weal at 6.15 o’clock instead of Charlevi-llc owing to headwinds. He departs for Brisbane, 1400 miles away to-moirow.

ENGLAND-AUSTRALTA AIR MAIL

(British Official Wireless.)

|RUGB V . October 11. Mr Instonc, Director of Imperial Airways, announced th a t it was hoped to -operate a complete England to Australia air mail within ten or twelve -months. He added they were actively investigating a projected Atlantic air mail to connect- with the. -air mail Systems of North America.

GREENE ARRIVES AT ATHENS

(Received this d y at 10.12 -a.m.) ATHENS, October 13Greene arrived ye-sierday.

RECORD PARACHUTE JUMP.

MOSCOW, October 11

: Evseyev; a senior pilot in the Red Army’s experimental branch, claims a world record for a delayed parachute jump. He leaped at 23,400 feet. He fell for 1324 seconds, 'in which time he descended 22,912 feet, before opening the parachute. He says that the temperature when he jumped was sixty degrees below zero.

AMY MOLLISON IN HOSPITAL

NEW YORK, October 11

It is learned that Amy Mollison is in a local hospital, under observation for her nervous condition. Officials decline to state any details.

SOVIET RETURNS VISIT

MOSCOW, October 11

Returning M, Oot’s visit, a Russian air mission, is sailing for France on October 23.,

EIGHT DEAD IN RUSSIAN CRASH

MOSCOW 7 , October 11. Five high Soviet’ officials, heads of the aviation and other industries, were killed when their plane crashed at Lopasnia Station, n the Moscow district.

Mine Bamlioff, the wife of one of the officials, and the -pilot and the mechanic of the aeroplane, were also killed.

The -dead officials are:—

M. Ba.ranoff, head -of the aviation .industry and Assistant Commissar of Heavy Industry. M. Golznian, chief of Civil Aviation. M. Gorbunpff, director of Plant N°. 23 (a -military -aviation factory). M. Zaz-U', Assistant Chief of Civil AHstjon.

M. Zarzar, member of the State Plan-

ning Board

The dead represent the keenest pi Mining -and executive brains of the aeroplane industry in Russia. To them 'r,..roi,, ,1.. Qdm growth of Soviet

civil and military aviation during the past five years. The cause of the accident is not Mown. A Government commission will investigate.