Newsreel Stories (1928)

[Music] it was in 1928 that Sir Charles Kingsford Smith took off from this field to start his epic making flight for Honolulu sua and Brisbane Australia and here he is roaring over the Oakland Airport to complete the last leg of his return visit the 2,48 m overwater and in this case over Night Hop from Honolulu his arrival here is 2 hours ahead of schedule so that only the early birds were on hand to welcome him and his Navigator Captain Taylor with a sure dep Landing so characteristic of this Intrepid air man the ship is brought to Earth and a wave of a mitten hand is Kingsford Smiths welcome to America with a glow of a good job well done the two Flyers clamor from their cockpits both the Flyers look fresh and at ease as though they've been merely taking a joy hop across San Francisco Bay instead of being the first men in all history ever to fly the Pacific Ocean from Australia to America and to prove their freshness and freedom from strain the first thought of Sir Charles and Captain Taylor is the ship and the crowd in the hanger is treated to the side of the two men hopping about the plane like two ordinary mechanics with the completion of this return flight Sir Charles Kingsport Smith became the only man ever to fly the Pacific between Australia and the United States twice and secures even more solidly the esteem in which he is held by aviators and the The World At Large happy Landings always Sir Charles AER of the Atlant won over their treacherous Pacific roaring into the Oakland Airport she brings to a triumphant finish at 2400 M hop from Hawaii after 18 hours in the air 10,000 cheer the end of the epical flight as the lady Lindy slides into a perfect Landing with two records the first woman to fly the Pacific and first person to fly it solo she receives one of the most tumultuous greetings ever accorded a flyer roses to Amelia and the plots of the world to a veteran of flights that have shown the way for aviations progress It's her most brilliant chapter in a 16-year Aviation career how does it feel to fly both oceans Miss aart well it was very interesting to me to fly in southern Waters rather than in the North on the Atlantic Flight I had ice conditions and general storm on this flight really no bad weather at all except a few little rain squalls I saw the moon and stars most of the night of course in both flights I was very glad to see land [Music] he [Music] [Music] elderly tomatoes and other ancient fruit grandfather eggs and such the ammunition for the annual brawl between the frost and sophomores at University of San Francisco it's a scene of Bloodshed and Slaughter a frightful toll of Carnage and destruction Brave young men advancing to an unknown fate that might be worse than death itself it finally finishes in a draw but it'll never be forgotten the Battle of garbage hill a real robot plane a huge Douglas transport airliner at that is being tested by Army officials presumably for a radio robot controlled flight to Honolulu small ring direction finder set at top the cabin enables the plane to head directly for any broadcasting station the test Flyers say it makes blind flying safe and certain and now they'll get away with darkened windows on a test flight to fly the music as they call it to ride the broadcast waves from ship to ship at Sea and back to shore again in a final try out before the epical blind flight to Hawaii the new development is of far-reaching importance to Aviation it means true flying in darkness and in fog over land and ocean another big step towards transatlantic and Pacific Airline service [Music] the golden