FLIGHT LIEUT. ULM

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1933, Page 6

FLIGHT LIEUT. ULM

VERY ADVENTUROUS CAREERS

SOME NOTABLE PERFORMANCES

Flight-Lieutenant Charles T. P. Ulm is the son of a Sydney photographer. His adventurous career began with liis enlisting under an assumed name in the Australian Forces while still sixteen. Before reaching the age of 18 he took part in the landing on Gallipoli and was wounded the first day, being invalided back to Australia. He re-enlisted and. was sent to France, where he served until the armistice, with a respite due to shellshock. •

On his return to Australia he worked in a stockbroker’s office and later became interested in the formation of a company to build aeroplanes. While this company was- unsuccessful, -he was more fortunate with another, which, planned passenger flights from Mascot aerodrome. He was also an officer in the ,Repatriation Department for the vocationing training section.

It was while doing this work that there began his active association with Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, when they co-operated in a successful flight circumnavigating Australia. Later he left for the United States to join the great aviator in his epoch-making trans-P’acific flight. Just before leaving he was married. In the great first flight; across the, Pacific he acted as reief pilot, and was a partner in the venture. After certain difficulties due to finance, the party, in the Southern Gross, left Oakland, near San Francisco, on May 31, 1928, and. after stopsmade at Honolulu and Suva, made a landing at Brisbane in June, a total of 7716 miles being covered during the flight. On their 'arrival'in-.'Syd-ney later they were greeted .by a crowd of : 200,000' people, and' in . recognition of their' 'success they were given a. grant of £7OOO by the New South Wales Government. The total flying time had been 33 hours. Shortly after this Mr Ulm, with Sir Charles, founded the Austrian National Airways, which flew regular services in Australia until the depression forced it out of business. His next great venture was again -in partnership with ..Sir Charles,. when, once more in the Southern Cross, they made the first successful trans-Tasman flight on September 10, 1928, making the crossing from Sydney to Christchurch in 14 hours 25 minutes. Alter a. tour of New Zealand, during which the airmen were feted from one end of New Zeaand to the other, a return flight was made in under 23 hours. In recognition of this flight the Government' of New Zealand made the avia tors ' a gran t■' of £2OOO. } On June 22 of last year, Mr Ulm, accompanied by Captain Taylor and Mr Allen, left Sydney in the monoplane Faith in Australia with the intention of flying round the world. After making good time they were held tip in Persia by engine trouble, but ■eventually -arrived iati Heston , aerodrome on July 10. After an overhaul of tli© machine it was shipped to Ireland lor the trans-Atlantic phrt of the journey, but during the take-off a strut of the machine broke under the great weight of 10CO gallons of petrol and a number of people were injured.. / Another attempt was made from Peiidine Sands, but they were again prevented from taking off, this time by bad weather. Ultimately it was decided to return to Australia and the Faith in Australia took off from Feltham aerodrome on October 12. The intention was to attempt to reach Australia in four stages and to break the record held by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. In this they were successful, landing at Derby on October 20, having, accomplished the flight in 6 days 17 hours 47 minutes, thus eclipsing t,he existing record , by 11 hours 2 minutes. Immediately after this notable feat, Mr Ulm began, to formulate pans for the present flight.

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