AERIAL ENTERPRISE.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17407, 21 May 1928, Page 7

AERIAL ENTERPRISE.

LONG-DISTANCE FLIGHTS.

CAPTAIN SMITH'S PROJECT

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright i (Australian Press Association.) SAN FRANCISCO, Mav 10

The Australian airman, Captain Kingsford Smith, says his monoplane, the Southern Cross, is ready for his proposed flight to Australia. ""All that now remains is to set a date for the departure," he said. "We have not decided when we will take off, but it will be in the near future." Captain Smith said the three-motored Fokker plane had completed its test flights. The start will be made from the Mills aviation field.

LONDON, May 19

The Baltimore newspaper proprietor, Mr Van Lear Black, who is on a /light to Tokio and back, has arrived "at Cairo.

The Secretary of State for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, has sent a telegram to Lady Heath, who yesterday completed a flight from Capetown to London in a light aeroplane, congratulating her on her safe return after an adventurous and successful flight of 10,000 miles. PHILADELPHIA, May 19.

The Secretary for War, Mr Dwight Davis, told the delegates of the associated Harvard Clubs of the United Slates that he would .have 1000 airports in operation at the end of the present year, lie said the progress made in aviation by the Tinted Stales in the past two years had been greater than that, made by any oilier nation.