SOUTHERN CROSS ENGINE GIVES MUCH TROUBLE.
HEAT OF TROPICS BLAMED BY FLYERS. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. > BOMBAY, July 4. At 11.55 a m., the Southern Cross left Allahabad for Karachi.— Australian Press Association. CALCUTTA, July 4. During the whole of the five hundred ( miles to Allahabad, the Southern Cross' experienced a strong head wind. The aeroplane landed at the wrong place at Allahabad and then found it impossible to restart the right propeller. Finally, after hours of perseverance Flight-Lieutenant Ulm succeeded in restarting the blade. The aviators took off for the proper aerodrome at Bamrauli, narrowly missing a half-hidden wire fence, owing to having only two hundred yards of runaway. SquadronLeader Kingsford-Smith stated that never since they had begun their adventurous journey had the engine given so much trouble, which he attributed to the great heat of the tropics, which the flyers were finding almost unbearable. —United Service.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18804, 5 July 1929, Page 3
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