“SMITHY” LEAVES
FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, October 23. Sir Charles Kingsford Smih and his co-pilot, Mr Thomas Pethybridge, left Croydon at 7 a.m. today on their flight to Australia. A large crowd of friends bade them farewell. Overnight reports predicted bad weather over the Mediterranean, Sir Charles said the chill he contracted was severe, but he was feeling fit, and thought he would be all right. The airmen are making for Marseilles and thence to Cairo. It is undersood they hope to reach Australia in three days, to demonstrate the practicability of the fast air mail service, with a full pay load. The fliers arrived at Marseilles at 10.30 a.m. 1 “We may not hear from Kingsford Smith for a long time after leaving j Marseilles,” one of the airmen’s colj leagues told the “Sun-Herald,” sup- | porting the statement attributed to “Smithy” in the “Evening News” that he intending taking on sufficient petrol at Marseilles for a non-stop flight of 3000 miles, stopping only at Bagdad, .Allahabad, Singapore and Darwin.
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Northern Advocate, 24 October 1935, Page 6
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