SOUTHERN CROSS FLIGHT
AUSTRALIA TO LONDON BY AIR. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright, Sydney, March 7. The Southern Cross flight to London begins from Richmond on March 18. The first stage is to Wyndham, 1860 miles, and will be done in one hop. The next is also a non-stop flight from Wyndham to Singapore, a distance of 1030 miles. Smith and Ulm hope tn complete the last stage from Bagdad to London, 2513 miles, without a stop, reaching England in about 13 days from Richmond, where exhaustive tests of the instruments and the monoplane are at present being carried out.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1929, Page 9
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