PACIFIC AIR MAIL

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1934, Page 7

PACIFIC AIR MAIL

MR. T. P. ULM’S PROPOSAL. VANCOUVER TO MELBOURNE. . ■ It is stated that Mr. C. T. P. Ulm, who is now in the United States, proposes to make a flight from Vancouver to Melbourne, arriving in the latter, city while Prince Henry is there in connection jvith the centenary celebrations. Mr. Ulm has purchased- a British Airspeed Envoy machine with two 240 horse-power engines, which give it a cruising speed of 155 miles an hour. This machine is being constructed in England, says the Melbourne Herald, and Mr. Ulm is arranging for his flight before going to England. From there he will ship the machine across the .Atlantic and will fly it to Vancouver. This will be his starting point on the long and lonely hop across the Pacific. His course will be via Honolulu, Suva and probably Auckland, to Sydney. He proposes to fly across Canada and then across the -Pacific to Australia in less‘than seven days in a British machine with an Australian crow, and to bring a mail. He expects that the time occupied .by the flight from Vancouver to Melbourne will be five and a-half to six days. i Mr. Ulm’s principal objective is to demonstrate that it is practicable to run a fast direct’ service •.between .’ Canada and Australia,