ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15748, 13 February 1922, Page 5

ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHT.

ROSS SMITH’S GREAT UNDERTAKING. SOME INTERESTING PARTICULARS In (he proposed flight round the world Sir Ross Smith will he pilot, and Sir Keith Smith will be air navigator, while the mechanic will he the man who came to Australia with them on the Vickers-Vimy aeroplane in 1920. These three constitute the entire crew. The machine fo bo used on this occasion, it might be remarked, is a Viking with a Napier “Lion” engine. It will be furnished by Vickers, Limited. The “Viking” is a flying boat, with wheels that are available when landing on earth instead of water. It is, in short, amphibian. The approximate route to be taken in (ibis world’s flight will be via France, Italy, Athens, Cairo, Bagdad, Basra, Karachi, Delhi or further south to Allahabad direct, Calcutta, Mandalay, Hongkong, Shanghai, Fusan, Tokio, Pelropavisk, Unalaska, Kodiak, Edmondton, Chicago, New York, St. John’s, Azores, Lisbon, Madrid, Paris, and London. In a letter received by a Wellington man from Sir Keith Smith, lie spoke enthusiastically of the arrangements that .were being made, and evidently possessed the greatest confidence in theAiltimate success of the remarkable under-! taking.