“Smithy” Makes His New “Bus” Travel
FOLLOWING WIND HELPS
’PLANE
(By -Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) Received Tuesday, 9.50 p.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 11. Completing a record-breaking flight from Perth, begun at dawn, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, in the Lady Southern Cross, landed at Mascot aerodrome at 4.17 this afternoon. His time between Perth and Adelaide was about six hours, representing an average speed - of 233 miles an hour, while at one stage, for 44 minutes, he maintained a speed of 272 miles an hour. He had a following wind most of the way and rarely flew below 9000 feet. His actual flying time between Perth and Sydney, 2175 miles, was 9 hours 32 minutes. Kingsford Smith refuelled at Adelaide, not Forrest, as anticipated.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 September 1934, Page 8
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