FLIGHT TO LONDON

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10854, 25 March 1929, Page 5

FLIGHT TO LONDON

SOUTHERN CROSS MAY LEAVE

NEXT WEEK

United Prw« Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Association.'

SYDNEY. March 22. m The Southern Cross probably- will begin her London flight next week. Squadron-Leader Smith and Lieut. Ulm are taking a letter from the Returned Sailors and Soldiers’ League to the Grand President of the British Empire Service- League, Eari Jelßcoe, 'containing fraternal greetings to their comrade and good wishes from the nurses.

GENEROUS GOVERNMENT

GUARANTEE PAH) OVER

United Press Asßn. by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Association.) (Received March 25, 1 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 24.

The Bavin Government has paid over a cheque for £4500 to Kingsford Smith and Ulm, representing the ’ previous Government’s guarantee to enable the Pacific flight- to be. undertaken. Mr. Bavin paid his Government's contribution of £2-500 last November.

TALK TO WORLD

SYDNEY, March S

Scores of radio stations in a dozen different countries will follow the progress of the Southern Cross on its big flight to London. « Mr McWilliams, the wireless operator on the flight, has advised a number of stations of the ’plane’s route, and expects excellent results. Each of these stations has been given the wavelength of the ’plane’s I’ad.io, and Mr MeW illiains has prepared a comprehensive chart of wireless data that will enable him, as it were, to keep his finger on the pulse of the world while the ’plane is racing over oceans. mountains and deserts.

Weather is, of course, a factor that has to he considered by the wireless man 011 such a flight. Conditions may he such, in some 01, its stages, that it might he easier for Mr McWilliams to nick up a station 1000 miles away, than to talk to a station perhaps only 100 miles from the 'plane. Nothing is being left to chance in the face of this possible variability, and the likelihood that atmospheric conditions over two continents may not always he favorable.