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SHOULD NOT BE TRIED

Two Further Expert Opinions Against Project. TASMAN VENTURE UNSAFE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. "Miss Batten should be stopped from flying across the Tasman," said Mr. Harold Gatty, world-famous Tasmanianborn representative in New Zealand of Pan-American Airways and navigator t'o the late Mr. Wiley Post oil his first world flight, when he was invited to express liis opinion. "The Tasman should be crossed in a multi-engined aircraft, with a proper crew. Miss Batten should not fly a single-engined aeroplane, solo, across the Tasman. She should not do it. There is nothing to be gained." Mr. Gatty said Miss Batten's flight from England to Australia was "a very nice flight." Mr. C. C. Weinstein, president of the New Zealand Aero Club, is emphatic that Miss Batten should abandon her project. "Unfortunately, lam afraid nothing will stop her, not even a ban by the Australian Government, because she has accomplished a longer flight in , the same machine. She would not lose any prestige by abandoning the Tasman flight. In fact she would show good j , judgment." i

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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 243, 13 October 1936, Page 7

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SHOULD NOT BE TRIED Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 243, 13 October 1936, Page 7

SHOULD NOT BE TRIED Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 243, 13 October 1936, Page 7