IN THE AIR.
TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. KINGSFORD SMITH'S PLAN. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.10, a.m.), SYDNEY, This Day. Squadron-Leader C. E. Kingsford Smith sails for the United States and England to-day to make arrangements for a trans-Atlantic flight. FlightLieutenant Ulm has been refused leave by Australian National Airways, consequently he cannot accompany Kingsford Smith.
TWO YOUNG MEN KILLED. MACHINE CRASHES 1000 FEET. MELBOURNE, March 13. An aeroplane which failed to come out of a nose-spin crashed 1000 feet near Essendon. Two occupants, Ireci Ward, aged 23, and Ray Neville, aged 21, air mechanics, were killed, and the machine was wrecked. NON-STOP PACIFIC FLIGHT. AMERICAN AVIATOR'S PROPOSAL VANCOUVER, March 12. A message from Leonia, New Jersey, states that Mr J. Morton Sterling, an aeronautical engineer, has announced a plan to take-off at San Francisco about May 1 on a non-stop flight to .Nagasaki 'in a tri-motored monoplane of his own design, and with a crew of eight.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 130, 14 March 1930, Page 5
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