Tasman Flight.
KINGSFORD SMITH'S • COMPANIONS. 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 (teiinitely stated that Mr. Pethybridgc, 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 12th or 14th, when there will be a low tide and a full moon.
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Otaki Mail, 14 December 1932, Page 3
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