PACIFIC FLIGHT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19945, 1 November 1934, Page 9

PACIFIC FLIGHT

KINGSFORD SMITH STILL DELAYED

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright HONOLULU, October 30.

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith is awaiting good wehther to take off for Oakland. The storm area midway to the coast is expected to continue for two days. He called on the Army authorities this morning, refreshed by a long sleep. The ’plane is ready for the flight, after minor repairs. It will land at Oakland, thence going to Los Angeles the following day. It will take off at noon to lighten the fuel by nightfall, arriving at dawn. The distance is 2408 miles. Sir Charles claims sentimental reasons for landing at Oakland, the scene of the take-off on his first flight across the Pacific. He declared that his mother told him to go to San Francisco to see his brother Harold. "She’d give me beans by radio if I landed at Los Angeles instead.” Mr Taylor said he was going to England to fly an air mail ’plane to Australia in December, inaugurating the service. ANOTHER ADVENTURE PLANNED ULM’S PLANS OUTLINED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 30. Mr C. T. P. Ulm will shortly test at Portsmouth the twin-engined Airspeed Envoy monoplane, which will be shipped to Canada in a few weeks. He will fly to Australia via Vancouver, Fanning Island, Samoa and New Zealand.