FLYING.
THE SOUTHERN CROSS.
TO BE FLOWN ACROSS ATLANTIC. Press Association-Electric lelearanti-CoDrrigkt SANTA MARIA (California), Fri. Squadron-Leader Kirigsford Smith conferred with Captain Hancock, who backed the Southern 'Cross on its Australian flight, after which the flyer announced that the Southern Cross would come here from Europe as soon as backing was secured, and •would make a trans-Atlantic and trans-continental flight. Smith stated that his companions would be Messrs Litchfield, Mac Williams and TJlm. —A. and N.Z. P.A.
PRINCES AS AIRMEN.
RUGBY, Thursday.
The King’s oldest and youngest sons, the Prince of Wales and Prince George, made separate journeys by air to Torkshire to-day. The Prince of Wales left Hendon by aeroplane for Harewood, near Leeds, to attend the funeral of the Earl of Harewood. The aeroplane was piloted by Mr Fieldcn, the Prince’s personal pilot. Prince George left the Prince of Wales’s private landing-ground at Windsor in a Service aeroplane piloted by Squadron-Leader Don, and flow to Hull to open the municipal aerodrome. The aerodrome is one of the air stations in a chain being formed in the North of England by a private company. The Prince said he had decided to increase his knowledge of modern methods of transport by undertaking the journey by air. It had been a most enjoyable experience, and one which ho hoped to repeat when visiting other parts of the country. The evolution of air transport was amazing, and it was apparent to all that in the future no city or town would be able to hold its own without a *<»auatc facilities for aircraft. —8.0. W,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 October 1929, Page 5
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