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Various items, Charles Ulm, lost on Pacific flight - Oakland to…
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Sydney
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14-Sep-2019
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Various items, Charles Ulm, lost on Pacific flight - Oakland to Sydney 1934. 15 press photographs & 3 drawings from the San Francisco Examiner archives, two associated press photos & one from a cme Newspictures. The photographs show Ulm & his crew preparing for the flight, signing registers, fuelling the plane, studying charts & the plane at take off. The three drawings are of the flight plan & the search area near Honolulu. Ulm originally intended to fly from Vancouver B.C. To Sydney via Honolulu, fanning Island, Fiji & Auckland but there was a change of plans & the flight started from Oakland Airport with co-pilot G.M. Littlejohn & navigator / wireless operator J.S. Skilling making up an all Australian crew of the Airspeed Envoy 'Stella Australis.' the plane left Oakland on December 4, 1934 & came down in the ocean near the Hawaiian Islands. Despite a massive search by the United States Navy involving 23 ships & dozens of airplanes no trace of 'Stella Australis' or her crew was ever found. Five other Ulm items including. 1928 portrait photograph of Ulm in his flight-lieutenant's uniform with Maori guide 'Bella;' two press photos of Ulm after the Trans Pacific flight of 1928; 1928 press photo 'Mrs Ulm sees the plane arriving at Sydney;' & 11 April 1934 2 page press cablegram Auckland to Sydney reporting 'Short wave Operator at Auckland heard Ulm calling.' this refers to Ulm's New Zealand flight in 'Faith in Australia.'
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