TWO MORE BIG FLIGHTS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 254, 24 July 1935, Page 8

TWO MORE BIG FLIGHTS

Office Chair Thereafter

KINGSFORD SMITH’S PLANS

Two more Hights and .Sir Charles Kingsford Smith will desert for ever Hie ranks of long-distance airmen. The first will be a flight from England to Australia in the Lady Southern Cross in October, and the second a goodwill flight from Australia to Japan on behalf of the Commonwealth Government in January. “I do not intend giving up Hying,” said Sir Charles on arrival in AVellington from Auckland in an Air Force machine yesterday afternoon, “but I am rather tired of long-distance flights. I have now reached my 39th year and I am to coutrol all my aviation activities from an office chair.” After the conclusion of his transTasman service negotiations in New Zealand, Sir Charles will go on to Hie United States and Great Britain, studying the latest aviation developments, including ground organisation, direc-tion-finding and radio equipment. After about three weeks in England, he will fly the Lady Southern Cross to Australia. “It is not my intention to break the record from England to Australia, but I certainly will be in a hurry to gel back,” he explained. Probably Mr. J. T. Petliybridge, who recently passed through AVellington on his way to America mid England, will accompany Sir Charles on this flight, and .Air. B. Shiel, who is with Sir Charles at present, will be his companion on the trip to Japan.