FLIGHT TO ENGLAND
THE SOUTHERN CROSS, A THE .SECOND STAGE, :{%£ Australian Press Assn—United Servie* SYDNEY, June 29. A message from, Derby announce# itt departure from there of Squadron* Leader KingsfOrd Smith, .Flight-LSett-tenant C. T. P. Ulm (co-pilots),-Mr, H/ A. Litchfield (navigator), and Mr, T£ H. McWilliams (wireless operator), itt the monoplane Southern Cross for' Singapore. , •' ; The airmen left Derby yesterday a£ - 5.40 p.m. Western Australian time (IA9 p.m. Sydney time) upon this, the second stage of their flight to England, ARRIVAL AT SINGAPORE, GOOD NON-STOP FLIGHT, r SINGAPORE, June 29, The Southern Cross arrived here to* day ,at 12.45 p.m. The airmen wer& quite fresh, although they had freeil {BP the air 26 hours. Slight trouble wit&one of the magnetos was experienced, but it is hoped to obtain a new one at Rangoon, where they intend to land on Sunday afternoon.
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Waikato Independent, Volume XXIX, Issue 3104, 29 June 1929, Page 5
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