THE TASMAN FLIGHT
CAPTAIN MOODY’S PLANS. TESTS TO BE CARRIED OUT. MRS MOODY NOT GOING. (Per Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Captain Moody now states .that Mrs Moody will net accompany him on his proposed Tasman flight. He will take as wireless operator Osmond Jolley. Mrs Moody is a niece of Sir Thomas Mackenzie. , v , Captain Moody"says he proposes to fly the “Mascot” to New Plymouth. The route is about 300 miles shorter than that taken by Lieutenant Moncrieff and Captain Hood, being about 1150 land miles. He believes it can be covered in about 12 hours. Before embarking on the Tasman flight it is the intention of the airmen to undertake a test flight for at least 30 or 40 hours oyer the land, including one endurance flight of about 17 hours, which is longer than it should take to reach New Zealand. The machine will have a cruising radius of 2200 miles at an average speed of 100 miles an hour. It will carry three compasses and a reliable wireless transmitter. The time of the flight will be arranged- so as to arrive in New Zealand in the early afternoon.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 84, 19 January 1928, Page 5
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