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CAPTAIN SMITH’S FLIGHT. A BUSINESS PROPOSITION. (Press Association—By Telegraph—OopyrigaS ) SAN FRANCISCO, October 19. Captain Kingston! Smith announced that none of the several women applicants has responded since the quote of the price of 15,000 dollars for an aeroplane passage to Australia. Ho added that the flight was a purely business proposition.—A. and N.Z. Cable. COSTES’S PROGRESS. MAKING FOR BUENOS AIRES. RIO DE JANEIRO, October 19. Costes and Lebrix hopped off for Buenos Aires this morning.—A. and N.Z. and Sydney Sun Cable. GLIDER ALTITUDE RECORD. BROKEN BY GERMAN. BERLIN, October 19. (Received Oct. 20, at 9 p.m.) Schultze made a now glider altitude record of 2118 ft in four hours, beating the previous best by 552 ft.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20235, 21 October 1927, Page 9
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