"NOTHING LIKE IT"

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 246, 17 October 1929, Page 7

"NOTHING LIKE IT"

BRITISH AIRMANSHIP. Kingsford Smith Speaks Of His Plans. ATLANTIC PLIGHT IN 1930. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 11 a.m.) VANCOUVER, October 16. Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith returned to hie boyhood home on Wednesday and spent the morning renewing acquaintances before addressing the Canadian Club. He confirmed the report that lie will attempt a non-stop Atlantic flight in 1930, but intimated that he had no intention of essaying a 'Frisco to Tokyo hop. He sails for Australia by the Aorangi. Speaking of British aviation, he said that despite the strides made is other parts of the world he found that the British were not falling behind. At Hendon recently he saw flying equal to anything on tre globe. He never saw anything like it. The airmen there did things he could not and would not do. Kingsford Smith remarked that when the Atlantic trip was completed the Southern Cross would have made flights around the world. He hoped then to bring the machine to Vancouver, because it was there he started his life's career. On his return to Sydney he hoped to organise an aerial company to provide a fast passenger service between Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. He believed that service would fill an important need, and he hoped to make Australia as airconecious as the more densely-populated sections of the Empire.