KINGSFORD-SMITH’S FLIGHTS
ADDRESS TO TIN HAT CLUB The motives behind some of Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith’s flights and how he was frustrated in attempts to establish air lines in Australia “by Government ineptitude and lack of vision,” were described by Mr J. S. W. Stannage in an address to members of the Tin Hat Club last evening. Mr Stannage also related some of his personal experiences, giving first-hand descriptions of the first Atlantic flight from London to New York, and the action of Mr P. G. Taylor, who saved the lives of the crew of the Southern Cross on a Tasman flight by climbing out onto a strut of the aircraft to change oil from one motor to another.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25321, 22 October 1947, Page 3
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