TWO PLANES TO FLY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 349, 2 May 1935, Page 5

TWO PLANES TO FLY

SMITHY’S TASMAN CROSSING

i| FAITH IN AUSTRALIA TO ACCOM : PANY SOUTHERN CROSS ■I ■I ■j Press Association —Copyright i Sydney, May 1 | Sir Charles Kingsford Smith an- -; nounccd to-day that the monoplane \ Faith in Australia would accompany the i Southern Cross on the jubilee air mail ? flight across the Tasman on May 14. ! The intention is upon the return flight j to bring New Zealand in direct air mail I contact with London for the first time. ■ Sir Charles will pilot the Southern | Cross, with Mr. John Stannage as radio | operator, and Captain P. G. Taylor will j pilot the Faith in Australia, with Mr. |S. Colvin as radio operator. The j machines will fly together to New Zeaj hnd, landing at New Plymouth the j morning after the take-off from Rich- ! mend, New South Wales. I