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KINGSFORD SMITH-
PLANNING NEW FEAT
|l 7,000-Mile Dash From Los
Angeles to Australia
Next in Line
By AaaocUted Pr«n
Los Angeles, Nov. 8. — Plans of
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith to
fly 17,000 miles from Los Angeles
to Australia by way of England
were disclosed here today by the
Australian airman, who has just
conquered the Pacific for the se
cond time.
Kingsford-Smith said he planned
to leave in three or four days for
New York on the first leg of what
will be one of the longest flights
in aviation history.
"I much prefer to return home
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KINGSFORD-SMITH
PLANNING NEW FEAT

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by boat in leisurely fashion," he
told a group of officials at the Pa
ramount motion picture studio.
"However I think plans have about
materialized for me to fly from Los
Angeles to New York, thence to
London and from London to Austra
lia."
The Australian plans to use the
same American-built speed plane in
which he and his co-pilot and na
vigator, Capt. P. G- Taylor, arrived
here from Oakland Sunday after
completing an epic flight from Aus
tralia to the United States by way
of the Fiji Islands and Hawaii.
The plant has been offered for
sale here to repay Kingsford-Smlth's
backers who built it for the recent
England-Australia air derby, from
which he withdrew.
Kingsford-Smith said at Suva, Fi
ji, that if he did not sell his plane in
the United States he would fly
to England and from there attack
the England-Melbourne record of
less than three days hung up in the
air derby by Charles W. A. Scott
and T. Campbell Black.
The plane was attached for an
alleged debt of $2,500, including in
terest, which the flier was said to
have contracted in preparing for
his 1928 flight from Oakland to
Brisbane, but he did not appear to
take the claim seriously.

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