KINGSFORD SMITH'S PLANS
Australian Press Association.
NEW YOEK, Ist October. Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith conferred with tho officials of the Wright Company to-day, and told them that tho Southern Cross, with three engines, averaged about 32 gallons per hour on the trans-Pacific flight. Kingsford Smith estimates he can make the England-tTnited States flight on 1550 gallons of petrol in fifty hours, and stated he could easily rise with such a load.
He added that he intends to use the two and s half-mile runway at the Cranwcll aerodrome to take off for New York.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 81, 2 October 1929, Page 11
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