ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA.
Sir,-One reads the articles in your paper with pleasure, and in certain caseg with enlightenment. On reading your article on Sir Frederick Sykes in the issue of April -16, one learns that "he was partly responsible for early barn storming flights ... that of Ross and Keith Smith to Australia for instance." Other readers besides myself would, I am sure, be grateful if you could give us-some more information about Ross. We knov of the epic flight of Sir Ross Smith and his brother, Sir Keith Smith, but you would not, of course, refer to that flight as "barn-storming" any more than one would refer to the navigational voyages of Drake or Captain Cook as barn-storm ing, though the idea was the same-"tq show people that it could be done." To apply such a word to an achieves ment of that kind is to insult the memory of a great pioneer of flicht.
D. T.
WOOD
(Whangarei).
(We acknowledge our correspondent’s tight to be facetious at the expense of a graphical error, but so far as "barn : means flying for profit it may not« unreason« ably be applied to the flight of Ross. and Keith Smith, Who won a prize of £10,000, It is hardly necessary to point out that the word was not used in any disparaging sense.- Ed. ),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 466, 28 May 1948, Page 5
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222ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA. New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 466, 28 May 1948, Page 5
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