ALOFT AGAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 242, 13 October 1933, Page 7

ALOFT AGAIN.

CROSSING AUSTRALIA.

' "Smithy" Making for Sydney And Melbourne. HEALTH MUCH IMPROVED. (United r.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, October 12. . A message from Wyndham states that Sir Charles Kingsford Smith left there at 5.7 a.m. to-day (local time) and expects to reach Brisbane 011 Saturday, Sydney 011 Sunday and Melbourne on Monday. A message from Camooweal, Queensland, states that Sir Charles landed there at 6.15 p.m., instead of at Charleville, owing to head winds. He will leave for Brisbane (1400 miles away) tomorrow. The nervous exhaustion which the airman suffered in the early stages of his flight from England has completely disappeared. Officials of the Wyndham meat works entertained him last evening. In the course of a speech Sir Charles said 1 Wyndham had outstanding claims to be] the first port of entry for aeroplanes from overseas as it is 100 miles closer, and includes 300 mifes less water, than the Darwin route. The airman said his record was bound to be shattered by competitors in the centenary air race, but he thought the machine which beat the record would be definitely out of the light aeroplane class.

The Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, has received His Majesty's congratulations for Sir Charles.

LEISURELY TRIP. BRITISH M.P. FOR AUSTRALIA. (Bccelved 12.30 p.m.) CAIRO, October 12. Mr. W. P. Crawford-Greene, M.P. (Con., Worcester) who, with two or three friends, is making a leisurely trip to his native land, Australia, in a chartered aeroplane, arrived at Athens yesterday and came on here to-day. FOR AUSTRALIA. CREW TO GO WITH ULM. (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, October 12. The Australian airman, Mr. C. T. P. Ulm, on his forthcoming return flight to Australia, will be accompanied'by Mr. G. U. Allen, Captain P. G. Taylor and Mr. John Edwards, a London radio operator. AIR ENTERPRISE. IMPERIAL AIRWAYS' PLANS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 12. The director of Imperial Airways, Limited, announced that it is hoped to operate a complete England to Australia air mail service within 10 or 12 months. The company is actively investigating a projected Atlantic air mail service to connect with the air mail systems of North America. PARACHUTE JUMP. RUSSIAN RECORD CLAIMED. MOSCOW, October 12. The senior pilot of the Red Army's experimental branch, Evseyeff, claims aworld's record for a delayed parachute jump. He leaped from an aeroplane at a height of 23,400 ft and waited 2ro 12Js (during which he descended 22,5/12 ft) before he opened his parachute. Evseyeff says the temperature when lie jumped was 60 degrees below zero.