HURLEY’S START.

Grey River Argus, 6 November 1928, Page 5

HURLEY’S START.

FOR EAST INDIES. Before Dawn. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn'). SYDNEY, November 5. Hurley left Wyndham at 1.50 a.m. (otherwise 3.41 Sydney time), headed tor Cape Londonderry, on the extreme north-we t eoast of Australia, at a speed of ninety miles hourly. He will set a course for Koepang, and in the event of head winds, a landing will be effected at Sourabaya. Hurley does not intend to risk a landing on an unknown island aerodrome. -surrounded by high mountains in the dark. The machine carries three hundred gallons of petrol, suffieient tor twenty-four hours. Spirit of Australia. CROSSES TIMOR SEA. SYDNEY, November 5. A meamg, received to-day from Cap tain Hurley, reported that his plan,, the Spirit of Australia, had crossed the Timor Sea safely in a little over five hours. Passing over Timor, the plane, attracted many natives front thnir villages to watch the unusual visitor. Southern Cross Radio xMan. HOLIDAY FOR McWILLI.AMS. MAY REJOIN PLANE. WELLI NG TON. November b. The wireless operator of tie Soutli ern Gross, Mr T. 11. McWilliams, return; .(I tp Wellington by the AJakura. from Sydniey to-day. Air McWilliams has obtained an extension of icavc from his employers, the Unii-n Steam Ship Co., Ltd., and after three weeks’ •tay ir. the Dominion, h will return tu Australia, where he will rejoin Squadron Leader Kingsford Smith anti Flight Li uteluant 1 Im. “X have no definite plans for tl«future,’* remark; d Mr McWilliams. ‘,and neither have Kingsford Smilh and; Ulin. The Navigator, Filch lie.-:, is in the same box, and is just stand ing by. By the time that 1 return, ho.wever, ther*. may be something de finite in view for further flights.” Ho said the Southern Cross was a’l pr.Jisent being overhauled by •Doc ’’ Maidmeoit. Asked how he found the journey by the Alakura after a one night trip from Sydney to New Zealand on the* epoch making flight of the Southern Gross, Mr McWilliams san. I hat the steamer voyag, secun d somewhat monotonous. “When we were 24 hours out,” he said. “I imagined that we should be over New Zealand. I'he Btamcr trip seemed very slow." Noted Distance Flier. KILLED IN ARIZONA. NEW YORK, Nov. I. A message from Prescott, Arizona, -ays that when the monoplane “Yankee Doodle,” flying from Los Angeles to New York, was attempting «i west Io east trans-continental record, she crashed in the Crook Canyon, near there, on Saturday night. Captain Charles Collyer, the pilot, ami Harry Tucker, owner of the plane, were kill cd. Ten days ago Captain Collyer [•rented an east to west record, doing the journey in twenty-four hours fiftyone minutes. He also was the holder of the round-the-world trip record in twenty-three days fifteen hours twen-ty-one minutes, which he completed on July 22 m I last.