The Archive · 1923

SIR KEITH SMITH'S NEXT WORLD FLIGHT

Having made arrangements for his world flight at the end of April, Sir Keith Smith has returned to England, after visiting four continent. He is very hopeful of encircling the world by air, and when he disembarked at Liverpool from the Cunarder Caronia, on which he had crossed the Atlantic from New York, he said that he had thoroughly gone into all preliminaries and even appointed his mechanics at various places, "J hope to start at the end of April," he said, "and in China, Japan, Siberia, Canada, and America, during my eight months' tour, I have made arrangements as regards landing stations, the road to follow, etc.

"T hope to use a Viking machine and traved eastward when 1 set out.

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