ULM PARTY DELAYED
ENGINE TROUBLE DEVELOPS. (Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.45 a.m.) Sydney, this day. Mr. Ulm advises from Derby that he is being delayed by engine trouble and the hour of his departure depends on the time occupied in rectifying it. He will try to get away in the morning and expects to fly a non-stop flight to Mascot in 24 hours.
Mr. C. T. P. Ulm, Captain P. G. Taylor, Mr. G. U. Allen, and Mr. John Ewdards, wireless operator, who left Feltham, Middlesex, for Australia, at 10.30' p.m. on Thursday, October 12, in the monoplane Faith in Australia, landed at Derby, Western Australia, at 12.15 a.m. on Friday (local time). The flight was accomplished in six days 17 hours 47 minutes, so that Mr. Ulm and his companions beat Sir Kingsford Smith’s solo flight record by 11 hours 2 minutes.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4460, 21 October 1933, Page 5
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