AERIAL NAVIGATION.
SUSTAINED FLICHT. ATTEMPT IPO BREAK RECORD. Pi ass Association-Electric Telegraph-Copyrighl .SAN FRANCISCO, Thursday. Captain Kingsford Smith and Lieutenant Pond, in “ The Spirit of California,” took off before 8/10 on Sunday morning in an attempt to break the world’s sustained flight record. They have now keen twelve hours in the air and are still going well. 'Captain Smith, reporting by radio, said they had trouble with tail flutter at the take off, but he did not expect that anything would break while in the air. “I will go through with the flight or go down with the ’plane” was Captain Smith’s concluding message. As darkness enveloped the bay, Captain Smith turned on the lights of the machine, which thus gave the appearance of a huge firefly hovering over San Francisco Peninsula, around which the ’plane continues circling interminably.—(A.P.A, and “Sun.”)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 December 1927, Page 5
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