THE PACIFIC FLIGHT

Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3554, 6 December 1934, Page 4

THE PACIFIC FLIGHT

MR ULM AND PARTY MISSING. Flying his Airspeed Envoy monoplane, Mr C. T. P. Ulm left San Francisco on Monday afternoon in his trans-Pacific Tight, via Hawaii, Fanning Island and Fiji, and is expected to reach New Zealand to-morrow, to land at Mangere aerodrome, en route to Sydney. 7 MACHINE FORCED DOWN. A cablegram received from Honolulu on Wednesday states that Ulm was compelled to descend into the sea at 9.24 ia.m. He is using his radio on the surface, and says the plane will float for two days. Ulm continuously asked for the beacon, whicn sends the signals out on a directional beam. As the beacon has been out since midnight it is surmised that the aviators are well out of tfieir course.

Mr C. T. P. Ulm, who recently declared that within two years there will be a weekly air mail service between America and Australia, first camp into prominence in 3927 when, with Sir Charles Kingsford Smith lie established a record for the round Australia flight, covering 7539 miles in 10 days 51 hours. He was cocommander, organiser and relief pilot for the great flight of the Pacific made by Squadron Leader (now Sir Charles) Kingston! Smith in June, 1928. For this flight Mr Ulm was awarded the Air Force Cross. In August. of the same year he again joined Kingsford Smith in a non-stop transcontinental flight from Melbourne to Perth, and the following month they flew from Sydney to Christchurch in 14’ hours 12 minutes. Next year, when on a flight to England, the two were lost for 12 days near Derby, in Western Australia, owing to a forced landing on a soft shore. After their rescue the flight to England was completed in 13 days. On his return to Australia Mr Ulm organised Australian National Airyvays, and it was not until June, 1933, that he undertook another long flight. A round the world flight was contemplated, but was abandoned when the machine, Faith in Australia, came to grief on the Irish Coast, before the Atlantic crossing. The Eng-land-to-Australia record was tackled

instead, and was smashed when the Faith in Australia landed at Derby in 6 days 37 hours 43 minutes. Mr Ulm has made air mail flights to New Zealand, and he was the pioneer of the New Guinea air mail service.