SATISFIED WITH PLANE
THE LADY SOUTHERN CROSS. KINGSFORD SMITH’S NEW RECORD. ACROSS AUSTRALIA IN TEN HCiURS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 6.30 p.m. Melbourne, ' Sept. 9. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, flying the Lady Southern Cross, left at 6.9 a.m. today for Perth. He reached there at 4.31 p.tn. His actual flying time was ten hours 21J minutes, and the previous record was 22 hours. Sir Charles’ time beats his own record of 22 hours accomplished in the Southern Cross in 1928, says a Perth message. It was the first non-ston flight across Australia, a distance of 1900 miles. He said he experienced head winds nearly the whole distance. “This plane of ours is ‘hot stuff,’ ” he said. “If all goes well I think we will just about pull off that centenary race.” Sir Charles hopes to make even better time on the return trip to Melbourne to-morrow.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1934, Page 7
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