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...flyer of Australia, Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith has long pestered Imperial Airways to extend their airlines across the dangerous Tasman Sea to New Zealand. Long refused because Great Britain has not succeeded in building any airplane good enough for the job, he last week finally pestered British Aircraft, Ltd. into buying the right to manufacture the famed U. S. Sikorsky Clipper 8-42. Because it well knows 8-42 is far outmoded by the new Martin Clipper, which has three times as much carrying power, United Aircraft Corp. was delighted to get some...
...Australian hero is Air Commodore Sir Charley Edward Kingsford-Smith. Co-pilot and navigator on most of his flights is a thickset, baldish onetime mail pilot named Capt. P. G. ("Bill") Taylor. Because of Capt. Taylor's uncanny ability to find dotlike islands in midocean, Sir Charles's comment after most flights consists of: "Bill's course, as usual, perfect...
...vacuum bottle, "Bill" Taylor climbed out on a wing, braced himself against a strut, transferred oil from the starboard to the port tanks. When he had braved, the howling wind six times he had a gallon of oil, and the port motor started up again. Seven hours later Kingsford-Smith nursed his crippled ship back to Sydney. Haggard and drawn, he told newsmen: "Bill Taylor is the world's greatest hero. No other man could have done...
...Australia), an unprepossessing craft in which to attempt the hazardous flight from California to Australia. Her lack of power and last-minute patchwork of fabric, however, failed to perturb Flight Lieutenant Charles T. P. Ulm, who had made the Pacific crossing in 1928 with Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith in the Southern Cross. Said he: "I don't intend to get my feet...
...three hops they had flown 7,530 miles in less than 52 hours flying time. Only man to fly the long Pacific Route to and from "Down Under," Kingsford-Smith was last week hailed as a flyer second only to one-eyed Wiley Post...