FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA
EARLY START PROBABLE OAKLAND, Monday. The airmen, Captain Kingsford Smith and Lieutenant C. T. Ulm, today took the “Spirit of California” from Mills Field, San Francisco, to Oakland, the municipal airport. They announced that if all went well they would begin their flight to Australia within 72 hours, apparently abandoning their intention to attempt an endurance flight record.
To-morrow morning the airplane will he taken into the air for a fullload test. Captain Smith says that if this test is successful, as he anticipates it will be, the plane will be prepared immediately for the start on the flight to Australia.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 227, 14 December 1927, Page 9
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106FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 227, 14 December 1927, Page 9
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