TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1930, Page 4

TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT

KINGSFORD-SMITH’S PLANS. In view of the public interest attached to Squadron-Leader Kingsford-Smith h forthcoming attempt to fly across the Atlantic, Mr. James D. Jacobs, managing director of the Atlantic Union Oil Company, Ltd., yesterday made a statement regarding the arrangements for the flight. “The long association of this company with the co-commanders of the Southern Cross and the fact that Union spirit and Altahtic motor oil have been used on every previous flight of that famous ’plane has given rise,” he said, “to the assumption that we are sponsoring this fresh attempt. This is not the case. Squadron-Leader Kingsford-Smith lias completed arrangements with another company, under whose auspices the trans-Atlantic venture will be mqde. "It goes without paying that the crew of the Southern Cross have our sincere good wishes for an unqualified success. We shall watch their venture with the closest interest and will be amongst the first to congratulate them on their fresh triumph.”