FLIGHT FROM AUSTRALIA TO NEW ZEALAND

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 114, 11 November 1919, Page 7

FLIGHT FROM AUSTRALIA TO NEW ZEALAND

A TWELVE HOURS' TRIP.

CONFIDENT AUSTRALIAN AERONAUT.

(FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

SYDNEY, sth November.

The possibilities of aeroplane flights between Australia and New Zealand were discussed with me. yesterday by Captaia Roy King, D.5.0., D.F.C., of Sydney. Captain King is confident that flights to New Zealand are quite practicable, and says that ha is prepared to demonstrate that they are by making the flight himself before the end of the year if sufficient inducement is offered. It could be done in 12 hours, he says, with a modern machine, such as Captain Mathews is using (a Sopwith transport) on the flight from England to Australia.'

Thore are, he states, a numbeij of machines capable of non-stop flights of over 1000 -miles, and they could be used for the transport of mails, and the carnage of from eight to ten, passengers per trip. They could be in wireless communication with both Australian or New Zealand the whole way across. ■

"If the New Zealand Government will only oifer a substantial enough prize they will see me over there per aeroplane before the year is out," he declared.

Captain King has a distinguished record as an aeronaut. He was a flight commander in the -Fourth Australian Squadron, and, among other notable, achievements, brought down 26 German machines.