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Fourteen times has the North Atlantic been spanned nonstop by airplanes; the Pacific not once. Several flyers have reached Hawaii from the U. S.; Kingsford-Smith flew on from Hawaii to Suva and Australia. U. S. Army and Soviet flyers crossed Bering Sea, as did Post & Gatty a few weeks ago. But big money prizes offered for the first nonstop flight between U. S. and Japan have stayed uncollected after four tries in two years, chiefly because of the staggering fuel load needed for the 5,000-mi. route. Last week the fifth serious Tokyo trial got away from Seattle...
Last April Charles William Anderson Scott, a rangy young man who was once champion boxer of the Royal Air Force, landed his Gipsy-Moth at Port Darwin, Australia 9 days 3 hr. 20 min. after leaving Kent, England. His time just beat the record of Wing-Commander Kingsford-Smith; but Lieut. Scott wearily declared: "I wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds." Last week Lieut. Scott arrived back in England. His time from Australia was 10 days, 23 hr.-nearly two days better than Kingsford-Smith's record for that direction. Ill from exhaust fumes...
...Mail. Fortnight ago the first mail plane of Imperial Airways' new London-Australia service (with which addition the company serves four continents) ran out of fuel near Kupang on the Island of Timor, cracked up in a forced landing. Last week Australia's air hero Charles Kingsford-Smith flew from Port Darwin across the Timor Sea to Kupang, in his famed Southern Cross, and returned with the mail from the crippled City of Cairo. Not discouraged. Imperial Airways last week dispatched its second Australian mail plane from Croydon, England. By schedule, the flight should take ten days; surface...
Even as Col. Lindbergh joined the staff of T. A. T. and Pan American Airways, and as Capt. Coste took office with France's Air-Union, so did Wing-Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith return home from his famed flights to become managing director of Australian National Airways Ltd. One day last month one of his company's Fokker monoplanes, the Southern Cloud, took off from Sydney for Melbourne, over 450 mi. distant, with five passengers and two pilots. It passed over Wangaratta, about 300 mi. along its course, was reported again near King Lake, 40 mi. north...
...Paris last week the International League of Aviators pronounced Dieudonne Coste the world's outstanding airman of 1930. To him for the second year went the Harmon award of 50.000 francs. The awards committee had deliberated long over the name of Coste and Wing-Commander Charles E. Kingsford-Smith, both transatlantic flyers. They chose Coste, they said, because he already held five world records. Other kudos: Frank Monroe Hawks, best U. S. flyer, for his transcontinental speed flights; Amy ("Johnnie") Johnson, best woman flyer, for her London-Australia solo flight; Dr. Hugo Eckener, world's best dirigible pilot...