ACROSS THE PACIFIC.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19258, 13 March 1928, Page 11

ACROSS THE PACIFIC.

FLIGHT TO START IN MAY. [THE PRESS Special Service! WELLINGTON, March 12. A passenger for Sydney by the Makura, which arrived at Wellington to-day from San Francisco, is Mr K. Anderson, who is returning to Australia with a view to making financial arrangements in connexion with a flignt across the Pacific by Captain Klngsiord smith. The flight has not definite ly abandoned, and it-is hoped that with luck a fresh start will be made by the party about May Ist. Mr Anderson expressed confidence that the Pacific would be flown in the near f"*"";. . "The Pacific is going to be Houn tinvear bv several nations," he said but "whether we shall do it remains .o.be Se The machine in which it is proposed to make the flight is a three-motored Fokker. There are three ]Vh.riw,«ul engines which are capable of developing 220 h.p. each. Any one engine is capable of keening the machine in the „jr without altitude being lost, lhe plane is equipped with "dump valv?s so that in the case of accident henz.ne can be <*a«ily discharged and the machine left with 200 gallons of fuel vhirh T.-111 be sufficient to keep it n .be air for four or five hours using only one engine.