SOUND BASIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 172, 22 July 1936, Page 9

SOUND BASIS.

DOMINION AIR LINES. TRIBUTE BY AMERICAN. GOOD FIELD IN NEW ZEALAND. j "Xew Zealand air lines appear to be founded on a sound b.isis, for your operators seem to have a firm grip of the | right idea of how to organise air trans-; port and are not making the mistakes we did a few years ago of over-expan-1 sion at a too-rapid pace at the begin- | ning,'' Mr. Vernon A. Dorrell, factory I representative of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California, j remarked in an interview with the i "Dominion." Mr. Dorrell has been flying since 1924, much of his time having been spent as a pilot with Pan-American Airways, for which film lie was formerly cliiei pilot and operating superintendent of the Pacific Coast division, between Los Angeles and Mexico City. His Hying experience covers many types of transport aeroplanes and embraces Newfoundland. Canada, Mexico, Central America, England and France. He is to visit Australia to conduct test and exhibition flights with the Lockheed Electra monoplane which recently passed through Wellington on the Hauraki on the way to Australia for assembly for the Guinea Airways service between .Brisbane and Xew Guinea. [ "In air transport, like any other business, you just can't let the supply run ahead of the demand, which is what we tried to do a few years ago." he said. "In Xew Zealand, from conversations with representatives of the companies it seems to me that you have started on the right lines to build up gradually with good equipment and personnel." Xew Zealand, he added, offered a good field for flying development, though because of the size of the country and | the population, it was probably not agrcat as that in Australia. Xew Zealand really gained by being later in the ' field.