TEST OF SOUTHERN CROSS.
FOR TASMAN FLIGHT,
Sydney, July 31
It is practically certain that the Southern Cross will be given a trial flight to-morrow. The engines are now pronounced first class. AVIATOR’S PLANS. Should the Southern Cross flight (o New Zealand be completely successful, Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith and Flight-Lieut. C. T. P. Ulm plan a New Zealand-Sydney flight. Thus their plan is for a New Zealand-and-back flight. Navigator, Litchfield, of the Union steamship company, is busy completing the intricate navigation details of the flight to the Dominion.
The flight across the Tasman is no easy matter. The airmen realise this, and are not minimising the attendant dangers. They feel that the Australian public, which raised for them almost £25,000, must be told the whole facts of the trip. And the airmen’s sense of duty to the public, as well as a safety move, will result in frequent radio messages from the plane during the Tasman trip, as was the case in the great Pacific flight. Nothing will be kept from any section of the public which responded so splendidly after the Brisbane hop. “We anticipate that the flight across the 1300 add miles of sea will take from 13 to 19 hours,” said Flight-Lieut. C. T. P. Ulm. “If weather conditions are fine, then we anticipate arriving at Sockburn aerodrome, near Christchurch, within 14 hours. “A . storm, or storms, should not delay us more than three or four hours at the most.
EIGHT HOURS’ NIGHT FLYING.
“We anticipate leaving Richmond between 9 and 10 o’clock on the night fixed by weather conditions. “Our air speed should be between 89 and 92 miles an hour. We expect to reach Sockburn at 1 p.m. That means about eight hours’ night flying.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3826, 2 August 1928, Page 2
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290TEST OF SOUTHERN CROSS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3826, 2 August 1928, Page 2
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