KINGSFORD SMITH

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 9, 5 October 1933, Page 9

KINGSFORD SMITH

England-Australia Flight Venture DEPARTURE FROM LYMPNE By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received October 4, 7 p.m.) London, October 4. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith left Lympne for Australia at 5.28 o’clock .this morning. MOLLISONS CRASH Plane Seafarer Damaged MAY LEAVE THURSDAY Toronto, October 3. In an attempt to take off from Wassaga Beach on Tuesday morning the undercarriage of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mollison’s aeroplane Seafarer II -was twisted, in a sudden descent to the ground. The machine was caught in a criss-cross wind which plunged it downward when it was some five feet in the air. The mishap occurred after the aeroplane had covered approximately two miles in a second attempt to take off. Mr. and Mrs. Mollison left the machine, which was carrying GOO gallons of petrol. Both were disappointed. The damage is estimated at only a few dollars. A faint chance remained to-night that the Mollisons would try to hop off on Thursday. It is doubtful whether the weather conditions over the w’hole 6000 miles will remain as satisfactory as on Tuesday, but meteorologists state there is no indication of any drastic change.

The aeroplane Is being repaired,

FLOATING AERODROME

South Atlantic Air Mail

Berlin, October 3.

The floating aerodrome Westfalen sails on Thursday to take up her position in the Atlantic between British Gambia and South America. She is equipped with directional wireless and carries three seaplanes. The placing of the floating aerodrome will inaugurate a regular Lufthansa mail service from Berlin to Pernambuco and Buenes Aires, taking four and five days respectively by means of landplanes as far as Cadiz and thence by seaplanes.