TRANS-TASMAN FLIGHT
SYDNEY TO NINETY-MILE lEACH TO PRECEDE WIZARD SMITH'S ATTACK ON SPEED RECORD [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, December 10. On the day before Wizard Smith attempts to break tho land speed record on Ninety Mile Beach a' transtasman flight from Sydney to the beach will bo attempted. The type of plane is being kept secret, but Mr Don Harkuess, the designer of Smith's car, said to-day that the plane has an engine designed and built by him. It will carry two pilots, and the proposal is to follow Kingsford Smith’s route to Wellington, and then fly up the coast to the beach, and back to Auckland. The plane has a range of twenty-two hours. It is expected that its average speed will be over 100 miles an hour, and that it will make the trip in twelve hours.
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Evening Star, Issue 20972, 10 December 1931, Page 10
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140TRANS-TASMAN FLIGHT Evening Star, Issue 20972, 10 December 1931, Page 10
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