Atlantic Flight

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 909, 28 February 1930, Page 9

Atlantic Flight

KINGSFORD SMITH’S PLANS Attempt in Southern Cross FOUR COMRADES AGAIN TOGETHER A FURTHER bid for fame in tlie air is to be made by the Southern Cross and its original Australian and New Zealand crew beaded by Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith, who are preparing to attempt a flight of the Atlantic from west to east. Tlie attempt; will be made within the next four or five months. Tlie Southern Cross is at. present being reconditioned for the flight which, if successful, will practically complete the famous machine’s circuit of the world.

Reed. 10 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. Squadron-Leader C. E. Kingsford Smith intends to attempt an Atlantic crossing from west to east in the Southern Cross. The attempt will be made some time within the next five months. Kingsford Smith leaves for

the United States on March 15. Flight-Lieutenant C. T. P. Ulm, Mr. H. A. Litchfield and Mr. T. H. McWilliams will comprise tlie crew. The Southern Cross is at present in Amsterdam at the Fokker works, where it has undergone a complete overhaul.

If Kingsford Smith, Ulm, Litchfield and McWilliams are successful in flying

the Atlantic they will establish themselves as unquestionably the greatest pioneers of long-distance flying of their age. Already the performances of the Southern Cross have been outstanding. the gallant machine having been flown without mishap from Oakland, California, to Sydney, via Hawaii and Fiji; from Sydney to Christchurch across the Tasman Sea; from Blenheim back to Sydney; and from Sydney to Croydon, England. When first attempting the most recent flight the machine was forced dorvn in Northern Australia.