LONG HOPS PLANNED
SOUTHERN CROSS FLIGHT STMT ON MARCH 18
(United P.X.r-s-By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. 11 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. The Southern Cross flight to London begins from, the Richmond Airdrome on March .18. The first stagg to Wyndham, 1,860 miles, will be done in one hop. The is also a nonstop, Wyndham to Singapore, a distance of 2,030 miles. Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith and Flight-Lieut. C. T. E, Ulm hope also to make the last sixage from Bagdad to London, 2,513 mites, a nonstop, reaching England in about 13 days from Richmond, where esxhaustive tests of the instruments aii(d the monoplane are at present being' carried out.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 606, 7 March 1929, Page 9
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106LONG HOPS PLANNED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 606, 7 March 1929, Page 9
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