TASMAN FLIGHT
KINGSFORD SMITH RADIO TELEPHONE'S INITIAL USE (Australian Press Association; SYDNEY, October IG. Air-Commodore Sir C. Kingsford Smith intends to use radm telephony for the first tim e that it has been employed in the history of ocean flying, on his flight to New Zealand in the ■Southern Cross. He hopes to be able to keep in constant communication with Australia, and New Zealand and also New York and London. The crew of tire Southern Cross will consist of Smith himself, J. U. Allen (relief pilot), John Stannage (radiost), and an unnamed passenger. Smith intends to take advantage of a full moon and, weather permitting, he will hop off here for New Zealand about two a.m., on January 14th. He expects that the journey will occupy twelve hours, but Smith is taking sufficient petrol to last for twenty hours. He is also supplementing the radio telephone by morse radio. Morse communications will be maintained with Sydney and New Zealand.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1932, Page 5
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