DEATH OF MRS. ULM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23969, 20 May 1941, Page 11

DEATH OF MRS. ULM

WIDOW OF NOTED AVIATOR HISTORIC FLIGHT RECALLED The death is announced by cable from Sydney of Mrs. Mary Josephine Ulm, widow of the late Mr. C. T. P. Ulm. Mrs. Dim twice visited New Zealand, her first arrival being notable in that it was the occasion of her flight across the Tasman Sea with her husband in the Faith of Australia. With Miss Kathleen Rogers, who was also a passenger, Mrs. Ulm shared the honour of being the first woman to cross

the Tasman by air. She had never flown solo, preferring always to travel with her husband as pilot, and the 14 hours she spent in crossing the Tasman was the longest flight she had with him. She described it as the "greatest experience of her life." This historic flight was made in December, 1933, and only a year later her husband set out on a Pacific flight which cost him his life. Mrs. Ulm chartered an old motor schooner to make a month's cruise up the Hawaiian Archipelago to Midway Island in search of her husband but it was unsuccessful. In December, 1936, Mrs. Ulm visited Auckland for the second time. On ibis occasion she travelled to the New Plymouth airport to see the memorial tablet to her husband and the late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith.