WINGED WAY
WORLD CIRCUIT PLIGHT. OMSK-CHITA STAGE, (Receiyed 9 a.m.) OMSK, Juno 0. Air. James J. Mattern, the American airman who is Hying round the world, arrived at Omsk at 11.25 and left again for Chita, Eastern Siberia. ADVERSE WEATHER. EXTREMES OF TEMPE RATURE. (Receiyed .10 a.m.) OMSK, June 7. In a special message to the North American Newspaper Alliance, from Omsk, Air Alattern states: “I battled through bad weather and high winds, with terrific changes of temperature, ranging from freezing point to 100 degrees, affecting the How of petrol from the taiiks. Once I dived 0000 feet and one wing cracked. I am now behind the record time of Rost and Catty. I hope ultimately to beat it.” A message from Aloscow states that Air Alattern was sighted over Novo Sibursk, SOUTHERN CROSS SAFE. TAXIED TO ETRAI GROUND. - i >i*: (Received 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 7. The monoplane Southern Cross, which was bogged in a flooded paddock at Frogmore, near Kempsey, aided by her own engines to-day taxied to high, safe ground. The flood waters are subsiding.
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Northern Advocate, 8 June 1933, Page 5
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