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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 7 (December 1, 1930)

Heavier-than-air Victory

Heavier-than-air Victory.

Flying in the wake of R101, Kingsford Smith created a new England-Australian aeroplane record. He did this notwithstanding the loss of a considerable number of hours in sportsmanlike attendance on a crashed competitor, Hill. Kingsford Smith chivalrously said that though Hill failed at Australia's front door, Hill's performance, allowing for all circumstances, was more meritorious than his own. Equally generous is Kingsford Smith's tribute to the victims of R101, photographs of the wreckage of which he carried with him to the Sydney press. But he has no faith in “gasbags.”