GOING TO AMERICA.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 266, 9 November 1928, Page 7

GOING TO AMERICA.

Smith And Ulm Plan To Thank

Mr. Hancock.

PRESENTATION OF 'PLANE.

(Received 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The Pacific and Tasman flyers, Squad-ron-Leader C. E. Kingsford Smith and Flight-Lieutenant C. T. P. Ulm, are to leave Australia for America on December 8. Their immediate purpose is to thank Mr. Hancock, who made the Pacific flight possible and later presented the monoplane Southern Cross to the two airmen. Whether the machine will be taken to fly from Honolulu to San Francisco depends on negotiations which are now in progress.

"SPIRIT OF AUSTRALIA" Hurley Leaves Singapore For Burma. FLIGHT TO ENGLAND. ; (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) SINGAPORE, November 8. At 6.30 a.m. to-day Captain Frank Hurley and Flying-Officers Moir and Owen, who are flying from Australia to England, left Singapore in their 'plane Spirit of Australia, for Victoria Point, at the southern extremity of Burma. SHORTER AND THICKER. ECKENER'S FUTURE ZEPPELIN. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 9 a.m.) BERLIN, November 8. Dr. Eckener says that future Zeppelins must be shorter and thicker, in order to resist the Atlantic storms better. CIVIL AVIATION. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. SYDNEY, November 8. Australia will be represented at the International Civil Aviation Conference at Washington next month by Lieuten-ant-Colonel H. C. Brinsmead, Controller of Civil Aviation, and Captain Hughes, president of the New South Wales Aero Club.