KINGSFORD SMITH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21616, 7 October 1933, Page 11

KINGSFORD SMITH

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA BAGDAD-KARACHI STAGE (Received October 6, 11.25 p.m.) BAGDAD, Oct. 6 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, who is flying to Australia arrived at Bagdad last evening and left for Karachi at 11 a.m. to-day (local time). The airman passed over Basra at 6 a.m. He hopes to reach Karachi tonight.

NON-STOP FLIGHT

FRENCHMEN'S VENTURE

OBJECTIVE NOT ACHIEVED

KARACHI. Oct. 5

The French airmen MM. Lefevre and Assolant, who left Oran in an attempt to break the world's non-stop flight record, landed at Karachi at 6.15 p.m. to-day owing to petrol shortage. They failed in their attempt, although they covered 4415 miles in 36 hours.

The record which MM. Lefevre and Assolant set out to endeavour to beat was that of their compatriots, MM. Codos and Rossi, who flew 5650 miles in 54 hours. The two last-named left New York at 5.45 a.m. on Saturday. August 5 and landed at Kayak, Syria, at 4.25, Greenwich mean time, on the Monday afternoon, thus beating by 309 miles the long-dis-tance record of 5341 miles set up by Squadron-Leader Gayford and Flight Lieutenant Nicholetts, who flew from CranwelJ. to Walvis Bay in February. MM. Codos and Rosi received a prize of 1,000,000 francs offered by the French Air Ministry to the first French pilots to beat the previous record. Their machine, the Joseph Le Brix, was a higli-wing Bleriot monoplane. Colonel Lindbergh's flight from New York to - Paris in 1927 took 33 hours 30 minutes. When Mr. Boardman and Mr. Polando made their record flight from New York to Constantinople in July, 1931, they passed over Lo Bourget, but as .they dropped a message which was picked up only the next day, the exact time when they reached Paris is not known.

LATE BERT HINKLER ENGLISH AERO CLUBS ALLEGATION OF NEGLECT LONDON. Sept. 26 The late Mr. Bert Hinkler's London solicitor, Mr. L. V. Pearkes, in a letter to the Times, pays a feeling tribute to the Italian recognition of the Australian airman. He points out that nothing has been done in England to perpetuato his memory. No English flying club was represented at the funeral and none sent a wreath.