ULM TO FLY TASMAN NEXT WEEK

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 184, 3 May 1934, Page 9

ULM TO FLY TASMAN NEXT WEEK

“Merely Goodwill Visit” BRINGING REPLIES TO MR. FORBES’S MESSAGES By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received May 2, 9.25 p.m.) Sydney, May 2. Mr. C. T. P. Ulm intends again to tackle the Tasman in the Faith in Australia next Wednesday. Weather permitting, he will fly to New Zealand from Richmond, taking goodwill messages from the Governor-General, Sir Isaac Isaacs, and the Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, which are in the nature of a special reply to those recently brought to Australia from Mr. Forbes and the Government by Mr. A. B. Lane, manager of the New Zealand United Press Association. Mr. Ulm says that no mail will be carried this time, and that it is merely a goodwill visit. The same crew will accompany him as on the last occasion. He hopes to return to Sydney on Friday or Saturday. CODOCK’S FLIGHT Crossing on Saturday . NEW ZEALANDER PILOT Sydney, May 2. Squadron-Leader White, weather permitting, will fly the newly-built Codock monoplane to New Zealand from Sydney on Saturday. RECORD BEATEN Australia-England Flight CHANNEL CROSSED IN FOG (Received May 2, 7 p.m.) London, May 1. The airmen Bernard Rubins and Kenneth Waller lauded at Eastbourne, having flown from Darwin in eight days twelve hours. Rubins says that he believes they have broken Mollison’s record, but it will not be recognised, as it wag not officially timed. Rubins and Waller bad a thrilling moment over the Timor Sea when the engine suddenly ran faultily and the machine lost height. The men were perturbed, then remembered that one tank not properly tilled had run dry. It was only a matter of switching from one tank to the other. They reached Calcutta on April 26 and Aleppo on April 30. They left Rome this morning. This was their worst day’s flying, as there were low clouds across France, and they flew blind through a Channel fog till they saw a house which they recognised as a friend’s bungalow at Pevensey, and lauded at Eastbourne. Only 30 saw the landing, their arrival being quite unexpected. Waller explained that when they left Darwin they had no idea of breaking the record, but as they got on and found they were making good time they decided on the last two days to go all out. The trip was most valuable in giving them a better chance in the Melbourne race. The worst section was from Rangoon to Singapore, also from Darwin southwards over rough country with no place for landing. The fog was so bad at Le Touquet that the authorities forbade their departure. After waiting for a while they were allowed to go, having signed a document freeing tlie aerodrome staff of responsibility. Mr. J. A. Mollison’s record time was eight, days 21 hours 25 minutes. On their flight from England to Australia Messrs. Rubins and Waller left England on March 22. and arrived at Darwin on April 6. MID-AIR COLLISION Four Killed in England ONE A NEW ZEALANDER (Received May 2. 7 p.m.) London, May 1. A Bulldog fighter, piloted by Flight-Lieutenant Joseph Seymour Tanner, with Flight-Cadet John Aiekeii Plugge, of Taupiri, New Zealand, as passenger, collided in mid-ait at Cranwell with a Hart day bomber, piloted by Flying-Officer Dennis John Donth-. waite. with Flight-Cadet John AskeilRutherford as passenger. All were killed. The aeroplanes were engage’d in flying training. The occupants of a lonely farmhouse and a few labourers saw a machine flying south and another west, and heard a crash like a thunderclap. All the victims were found dead in the aeroplanes, not having bad time to utilise parachutes'. Labourers had to dodge falling fragments. The planes made huge holes in the ground, the engines taking four hours to extricate. This is the first quadruple accident since February. 1933. and the sixth fatal Air Force catastrophe in 1934. Eleven deaths have occurred in Air Force accidents this year. A Press Association message from Auckland says that the Mr. J. A. Plugge was a son of Colonel A. Plugge, of Gallipoli fame. OFF TO UNITED STATES Kingsford Smith Leaves (Received May 2. 9.25 p.m.) Sydney. May 2. Sir Charlo,s Kingsford Smith ami Lady Smith are aboard Hie Monterey en route to America, where the former will negotiate concerning his centenary race aeroplane.