RECORD-BREAKING FLIGHT

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1934, Page 5

RECORD-BREAKING FLIGHT

KINGSFORD SMITH’S PLANE TRAVERSE OF THE CONTINENT NEARLY 230 MILES AN HOUR CERTIFICATE FOR MACHINE By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Sydney, Sept. 11. Completing a record-breaking flight from Perth begun at dawn, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith in the Lady Southern Cross landed at Mascot aerodrome at 4.17 p.m. to-day. The actual flying time between Perth and Sydney, a distance of 2175 miles, was nine hours 32 minutes. The time between Perth and Adelaide was about six hours and his plane’s average speed was 233 miles, while at one stage for 44 minutes the plane maintained a speed of 272 miles an hour. He had a following wind most of the way and rarely flew below an altitude of 9000 feet. He refuelled at Adelaide and not at Forrest, as was anticipated. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith has been officially advised that he will be able to leave Australia on September 25 even if information certifying the airworthiness of his monoplane has not arrived. The Civil Aviation Department expects that the American Department of Commerce will shortly cable a certificate of airworthiness for race purposes. Sir Charles is delighted. “On that certificate depends the amount of petrol I will be permitted to carry,” he says. TEST BY TURNER AND PANGBORN. FAST FLIGHT IN AIR RACE PLANE. Rec. 8.50 p.m. New York, Sept. 11. Colonel Roscoe Turner and Mr. Clyde Pangborn, testing the air mail aeroplane they will use in the centenary race, flew without a stop from Seattle to Los Angeles, a distance of 1180 miles, at an average speed of 204 miles an hour, in five hours and twenty minutes. _ They will attempt a transcontinental flight in an attempt to lower the existing record.