AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND.
'ATTACK ; ON RECORD. KINGSFORD SMITH’S PLANS. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. SYDNEY, Sept. 13. It was announced to-day that AirCommodore Kingsford Smith would shortly attempt to lower Mr J. A. Mollison’s record of 8 days 21 hours 25 minutes for the flight from Australia to England, in his new Avro Sports Avian machine, fitted with a de Havilland Mark 11. engine, which is now being assembled at Mascot. The machine will be called Southern Cross Minor. Prom Wyndham the route will be Cherlbon, Viotoria Point, Calcutta, Karachi, Bagdad, Athens, Paris and London, a total distance of 10,073 miles.
Mr Smith expects to land at Croydon on the seventh day.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18433, 14 September 1931, Page 7
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