AVIATION
PERTH TO SYDNEY RECORD-BREAKING FLIGHT SYDNEY, September 11. (Received Sept. 11, at 11.15 p.m.) Completing his record-breaking flight from Perth, which was begun at dawn, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, in the Lady Southern Cross, landed at Mascot aerodrome at 4.17 this afternoon. His time between Perth and Adelaide was about six hours, and his average speed 233 miles, while at one stage, for 44 minutes, he maintained 272 miles an hour. He had a following wind most of tile way and rarely flew below 9000 foot.
The actual flying time between Perth and Sydney, 2175 miles, was !)hr 32min. The plane was refuelled at Adelaide, not Forrest as anticipated. • THE NEW MAIL SERVICE LONDON TO AUSTRALIA SYDNEY, September 11. (Received Sept. 11, at 11.30 p.m.) The time table of the air mail service between London and Australia has been announced. The service, which will be a weekly one, will begin from London on December 8 and arrive at Brisbane on December 20. The first outward mail will leave Brisbane on December 10 and reach London on the 24th. The postal authorities here have made arrangements for the issue of a new Is fid stamp in connection with the inauguration of the service.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22365, 12 September 1934, Page 10
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