ULM’S FLIGHT PROGRESS
DEPARTURE FROM SINGAPORE NEW RECORD HOPES FADING. STILL SEVEN, HOURS IN HAND. (United F reset Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 12 noon ito-day. SINGAPORE, Oct. 18. Mr O. T. P. Ulm, Captain P. G. Taylor, Mr G. U. Allen and Mr John Edwards, wireless operator, who left Feltham, Middlesex, for Australia, at 10.30 p.m. on Thursday, in the monoplane Faith in Australia, have reached Singapore.
Ulm left for Sourabaya at 7.15 this evening (local time), seven, hours ahead of Smith’s record time. He stated it depended on the speed of the getaway from Sourabaya whether they' could break the record, but they' had not much hope. When the ’plane arrived at Calcutta the fliers were 24 hours ahead of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s record time.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 19 October 1933, Page 5
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