FAMOUS PILOT

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 284, 10 December 1934, Page 3

FAMOUS PILOT

ULM’S FLYING MILES BUN INTO SEVEN FIGURES 1 Famous first as a companion of Sir ) Charles Kingsford Smith on his epoch ' making flights, Ulm has, in recent years, become well known as a pion- I eer of commercial flyingHe broke away from a desk in a | Sydney stock-broker’s office to make | his start in aviation by organising a | company to run joy-riding machines > from the Mascot Aerodrome. To-day Mr Ulm is an honorary flight lieutenant of the Royal Australian Air Force, a flight-lieutenant of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Reserve, and holds the aommercia! pilot’s license for several types of machine, including the tri-motored Avro X., Bristol Fighter, Avro 504 K., D.H. Moth, Puss Moth, and Avro Trainer. His flying experience totals over 2500 hours, and his air miles flown pile up high in seven flgnres. As organiser of Australian National Airways, he flew over a million miles in Australia alone, and in the Southern Cross on her big flights and in the Faith in Australia he has covered distances several times the girdle of the world.

Mr IHm hold!" the Air Force Cross and the gold medal of honour—Ligue Internationale Aviateurs. Two of his flight records, the trans-Pacific Ocean flight from America to Australia and the Australia to New Zealand, arc held in conjunction with Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. His full list before the Centenary Air Race was as follows:— s Tran.s-Pae.ifie Ocean flight. Australia, to New Zealand, Perth to Adelaide. Melbourne to Perth, trans-Australia (non-stop), Australia-Singapore, Aus-tralia-Karachi. England to India. London to Calcutta, England to Singapore, and England to Australia (total time, fl days 17 hours 56 minutes). He also holds the record for the fastest crossing of the Tasman (Now Zealand to Australia, llhr flfltnin.).