AVIATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21828, 15 December 1932, Page 9

AVIATION

CAPTAIN BERTRAM’S PLANS FRESH START AGAINST RECORD. SOURABAYA, December 14. (Received Dec. 15, at 0.30 a.m.) Captain Bertram’s monoplane will be dismantled here and taken back to Darwin for a fresh start after the record. The whole of the undercarriage was wrecked. The stowaway, John Dodson, aged 20, wdio w’as born in Tasmania, declares that he had no special object in making the flight except that he was anxious to make a nice trip. Ho never thought he was endangering the lives of the pilots. The police are sending him back to Australia. ACROSS THE TASMAN. SOUTHERN CROSS’S FLIGHT. It is understood that the personnel aboard the Southern Cross when Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes his flight across the Tasman Sea will be: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, pilot. Captain P. G. Taylor, co-pilot. Mr J. W. Stannage, wireless operator. Mr Wilfred Kingsford Smith, brother of the pilot. Mr C. Shaw, of the Vacuum Oil Company. When the plans for the flight were first made public it was definitely stated that Mr Pethybridge, who is an aircraft engineer, would be one of the crew, but his name has not been mentioned recently. The take-off will be from Gerringong Beach on January 12 or 14, when there will be a low tide and a full moon.