ULM’S FLIGHT
AUSTRALIA TO N.Z.
POSTPONED TILL NEXT MONDAY.
(Per Press Association- — CopyiigM.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, November 23. Mr 0. P. Ulm has definitely decided to land at New Plymouth after his Tasman Sea flight in the “Faith in Australia,” according to a cable received thi s morning by Mr S. E. Neilson ’ secretary of the New Plymouth and New Zealand Aero Clubs. The cable reads: “Defininite decided to land at New Plymouth. Leaving after 24th, according to weather. Sincerely appreciate your splendid co-oper-ation. Thanks.”
Ulm’s message is interpreted to mean that Ulm will leave Australia early on Saturday morning, and arrive here early on Saturday afternoon, weather permitting. Preparations for Ills landing are being immediately put in hand.
POSTPONEMENT TILL WEEK-END
STORMS NOW SWEEPING. TASMAN
(Received this day at 10.30 a.m.)
SYDNEY, November 24
U!m has been warned by the weathei' bureau that storms at present are sweeping the Tasman, and an attempt to take off before the week-end will be unwise.
Ulm now plans to leave 'Richmond between midnight on Sunday and dawn on Monday.
SMITHY’S TASMAN PROJECT,
SQ. LEADER WHITE AT SYDNEY.
SYDNEY, November 23
The Southern Cross plane, when it flies to New Zealand at the end of the year, will be accompanied by the Wackett-Codoek monoplane which is now being built at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. Tbi s aircraft will be piloted by Squadron-Leader White, of Timaru, who arrived in Sydney this week to assist in tests of. the construction work.
ILL-FATED RUSSIAN MACHINE.
SABOTAGE IS HINTED AT.
MOSCOW, November 22,
The ill-fated' aeroplane, K 7 which crashed, as cabled, wag driven by six motors. -The'mishap is unexplained, sabotage is hinted at. ' The victims include two of the Sovet designing engineers, the head of the Technical Control Department, and M. Limansky, the secretary of the Young Communists’ League, in the death roll. Another report says the plane carried fourteen cadets, whoso fate has not been revealed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1933, Page 5
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