FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA
ENGINE UNDERGOES TESTS (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.5 ci.m. LONDON, Wednesday. The Jaguar engine to be used by Flying-Officers Moir and Owen in their flight to Australia was successfully tested out at Coventry to-day and will be conveyed to the Vickers works at Weybridge to-morrow, where the Vickers-Vellore machine is ready. All the instruments and petrol tanks have been installed and other alterations completed. It will take two or three days to instal the engine, after which test flights will be made early in the coming week. KINGSFORD SMITH’S PLANS HOP OFF NEXT MONTH SYDNEY, Wednesday. The proposed flight to England by Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith and Flight-Lieutenant C. T. Ulm, will not be begun until March 3 8 or 20, because the incessant rain at AVyndliam, North-Western Australia, has made the taking-off ground soggy. Preparations for the flight are well forward.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 600, 28 February 1929, Page 9
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146FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 600, 28 February 1929, Page 9
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