THE SOUTHERN GROSS
FLIGHT TO ENGLAND LEAVING ON MARCH 18. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, March 7. ('Received March 7, at 9.15 a.in.) The Southern Cross flight to London begins from Richmond on March 18j The first stage to Wyridham (1,860 miles, will be done in one hop. The next is also non-stop, Wyndhaln to. Singapore, a distance of 2,030 miles#. . Squadron-leader Kingsford Smith, and Flight-lieutenant Ulm hope to make the last stage from Bagdad to. London (2,513 miles) a non-stop one, reaching England in about thirteen days from Richmond, where exhaustive tests of the instruments and the monoplane are at present being carried out.-
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Evening Star, Issue 20118, 7 March 1929, Page 13
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105THE SOUTHERN GROSS Evening Star, Issue 20118, 7 March 1929, Page 13
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