ULM’S TASMAN FLIGHT
FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS EARLY DISASTER ESCAPED ? [BY GABLE —PRESS ASSN.- -COPYRIGHT.] (Received May 12, 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 11. Ulm left for New Plymouth at 9.40 p.m. It is a cool cloudless night. Ulm passed over Sydney about 10 p.m., and commenced the trip over the Tasman. He reported all well, CONTACT WITH WIRES. (Recd. May 12, 10 p.m. SYDNEY, May 12. Immediately after Ulm left Richmond aerodrome at 9.40 p.m., the lights in the aerodrome failed.
Subsequent investigations showed that the electric light wires which convey the current to the aerodrome, were broken. It is believed that “Faith in Australia” came in contact with them. Spectators saw a vivid flash as the machine rose. It is apparent that Ulm and his party narrowly escaped disaster. TORONTO CENTENARY RUGBY, May 10. Sir P. Sassoon stated in the Commons that the British Air Minister, on the invitation of the Government of Canada had arranged that a flight of four Fury aircraft would take part in the centenary celebrations at Toronto, in July.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19340512.2.41
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 12 May 1934, Page 7
Word Count
173ULM’S TASMAN FLIGHT Greymouth Evening Star, 12 May 1934, Page 7
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.