SIR KEITH SMITH.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3582, 18 September 1920, Page 5

SIR KEITH SMITH.

It is just over twelve years since El’oriot created a world-wide sensation by his flight across the English Channel a distance of some 21 miles. In 1920 the Smith Brothers created an even greater sensation by flying from England to Australia a distance of 10,923 miles. Now another modern marvel the biograph stej>s in and from the comfort of your local theatre you’ll see onehalf the gfobe spinning beneath your feet—cities, rivers and mountain peaks ,—all strange to you, yet brought so close you might reach out your seat and touch them. You’ll clench your teeth ami hang tight to your seat as the giant P la “ e swoops, dives, and swirls through the vast open spaces of the air route from the Old World to the New. You’ll hear the story personally related to you from the lips of one of the two famous brothers who performed the daring feat. You’ll hear his own straightforward account of the wonderful trip across the skies of four continents. Not' only has this picture the distinguished patronage of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, but the personal interest taken in these intrepid “Aussie” aviators is found in a message from >H.M. King George. “Delighted at your safe arrival. Your success wifi bring Australia nearer the Mother country and I warmly congraiulate you and your crew. This story will be emblazoned on the haze of history. In this fast-moving age let the opportunity be taken of bearing Sir Kcirh’s account of this great triumph, that we, as the years move along the years can look back and quote him in our reminiscences to the coming generation as the man who blazed the trail from* the Old World to the New by aeroplane.