“Smithy ” Halves Continental Record
FLIES ACROSS AUSTRALIA IN 10£ HOURS (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright). Received Sunday, 7 p.m. PERTH, Sept. 9. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, flying the Lady Southern Cross, left Melbourne at 6.9 a.m. for Perth and reached here at 4.31 p.m. His actual flying time was 10 hours 21$ minutes. His time heats his own record of 22 hours, accomplished in the Southern Cross in 1928. This was the first non-stop flight across Australia, 1900 miles from Melbourne. - “Smithy” said he had experienced head-winds for nearly the whole of the distance. “This plane of ours is hot stuff, and if all goes well I think we will just pull off that Centenary race,” he added. “Smithy” hopes to make even better time on his return trip to Melbourne to-morrow. It is interesting to note ihat on .September 1 Colonel' Roscoe Turner, an entrant in the Centenary Air Race, bettered his own American trans-con-tinental record. He flew from Los Angeles to New York (approximately 2520 miles, in 10 hours 21 minutes. Ho halted at Wichita, St. Louis, and Cleveland for fuel, and yet averaged over 250 miles an hour.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 September 1934, Page 8
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