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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 702, 29 June 1929, Page 9

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Southern Cross at Singapore

tine Flight Made From Derby

THE Southern Cross landed at Singapore at 12.45 p.m. 1 yesterday aiUer a fine run from Derby, whence the monoplane had departed at 7.40 the previous evening, Sydnev time.

Conditions were not always good, thick clouds and rain being encountered.

SINGAPORE, Friday. The monoplane Southern Cross, with Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith, Flight-Lieutenant C. T. P. Ulm (co-pilots), Mr. H. A. Litchfield (navigator), and Mr. T. H. McWilliams (wireless operator), landed safely at Singapore at 12.45 p.m. today, after a non-stop flight from Derby. The airmen had left Derby yesterday at 7.40 p.m., Sydney time, on the second stage of the flight to England. Smith and Ulm and the other members of the crew were looking quite fresh, and not tired, in spite of their

as though our luck had changed,” was one of the first messages picked up at Singapore from the Southern Cross when she was in the centre of the Indian Ocean, between Derby and Java. At one o’clock this morning the story of the flight, told in brief wireless messages received at Singapore from 9.30 p.m. yesterday onward, showed that the airmen were flying at an altitude of from 4,000 to 5,000 feet, in cold pleasant moonlight. They followed the regular steamship route until they struck the west