TASMAN FLIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 150, 27 June 1934, Page 8

TASMAN FLIGHT.

AWAITING WEATHER.

TEST OF SOUTHERN ROUTE.

MR. TJXM'S PLAN THIS YEAR.

"We will leave Hobsonvillo at noon to-morrow for the Ninety-mile Beach, if the weather conditions are suitable," said Mr. C. T. P. Dim this morning, referring to his departure in the Faith of Australia for Australia. '•However, reports so far indicate a westerly gale and cyclone over the Tasman, and we do not expect to get away for a couple of days." The Faith in Australia, said Mr. Ulm, was not specially designed for the route, and was heavily overloaded with petrol, so favourable weather had to be awaited. When a regular aerial service linking Australia and New Zealand was established, 'planes would leave with the regularity of steamers, regardless of weather, because they would be properly designed for the special demands of such a route. Eeferring to the proposed flight from Invercargill to Tasmania, Mr. Ulm said that everything was known about the northern route, and it remained to make a survey of the southern route, which would be appreciably shorter, though in winter conditions would probably be bad. A practical test of the route might reveal something new, and he hoped to make at least one trip over it within the year.