SOUTHERN CROSS
MAY TRY For new record AMSTERDAM, September 12. Captain Kingsford-Smith will shos't(]y go to America in order to thank Captain 0. Hancock, his backer in tho famous trans-Pacifio flight. He will not be accompanied by Mr. Ulm, who is returning- to Australia for urgent business reasons. Captain KingsfordSmith has *ot definitely abandoned his trans-Atlantic flight plans, but it is more probable that be will fly the Southern Cross back to Australia in an attempt to beat him own time. He took up a new F 9 Fokker, which has three 500h.p. engines, with a 90ft. wing-span, and carries 18 passengers. He may secure a similar machine for use in Australia. (Mrs. Ulm will leave Sydney by the Orama for Colombo, where she will meet her husband, who will sail from London the same day by the Otranto.)
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 14
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