ULM’S FLIGHT TO SYDNEY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19627, 23 October 1933, Page 7

ULM’S FLIGHT TO SYDNEY

START FROM DERBY DELAYED FEAT PRAISED BY ENGLISH AUTHORITIES United Press Association—By Electric Tel egrapb —Copyright (Received October 22, 6.30 p.m.' SYDNEY. October 22. The latest advices from Derby state that Mr Ulm is delayed owing to a loose cylinder head, which cannot be repaired locally. It will probably be several days before the flight can be rdSumed to Sydney. “WELL DONE!” V AUTHORITIES CONGRATULATE MR ULM. United Plena Association-B.v Electric Tel egraph-Cooyrlght LONDON. October 20. The Air League cabled Mr Ulm: ' Well done! Your flight is' almost an insult to the England-Australia air mail schedule.” “We shall be wedded to these slowcoaches for five years.” says the “Evening Standard’s" aviation expert, critioaily analysing the minimum speeds' specified in the England-Australia mail contract, in relation to the Dutch scheme. “Despite the flights of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Mr Ulm. we shall be condemned to the operation of the Australian route at speeds other countries are now leaving behind.” [Mr C. T. P. Ulm, who has been called "the best business man and finest publicist" among the long-dis-tance flyers, helped Sir Charles Kingsford Smith organise the great flight across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney in 1928, the Tasman Sea flights from Sydney to Christchurch and Blenheim to Sydney in the same year, and the Australia to England flight in 1929. Ulm and Kingsford Smith were co-commanders in each case, but it was generally conceded that while Kingsford Smith did most of the flying Ulm did most of the organising. Ulm and Kingsford Smith were joint managing directors of Australian National Airways till that enterprise failed through the influence of the depression on air travel. Each has since gone his own way. KingsfordSmtth giving joy-rides in Australia and New Zealand, and Ulm laying plans and getting a machine built for long-distance flights again. Ulm. with Messrs G. U. Allen and P. O. Taylor as assistant pilots and navigators, flew from Australia to England in the Faith of Australia in 20 days. He had the machine' overhauled and reconditioned in England, and contemplated making an Atlantic flight, abandoning this idea because helpful weather was not likely to be met for some time. Mr J. O. N. Edwards, of London, acted as wireless operator on the return trip from England to Australia, which, it is interesting to note, improved considerably on the time of the old Southern Cross from Australia to England, which was 12 days 14 hours 18 minutes from Derby to Croydon.]