SOUTHERN CROSS.
DIFFICULTIES EXPERIENCED AT ALLAHABAD. ENGINE GIVES SERIOUS TROUBLE. AVIATORS FEELING THE HEAT. United Press Association.—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received This Day, 0.5 a.m.) CALCUTTA, July 4. Over the whole five hundred miles to Allahabad, the Southern Cross experienced a strong head wind. She landed at the wrong place at Allahabad and it was then found impossible to re-start the right propellor. Finally, after hours of persistence, Ulm succeeded in re-starting the blade. The aviators took off for the proper aerodrome at Bamrauli and narrowly missed a half-hidden wire fence owing to having only two hundred yards run-way. Kingford Smith stated that never since they began the adventurous journey had the engine given so much trouble, which he attributed, to the great heat of the tropica, which the flyers are finding almost unbearable.— (Australian Press* Association'—United Service.)
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Wairarapa Age, 5 July 1929, Page 5
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