TASMAN AIR MAIL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 9

TASMAN AIR MAIL.

Talk Of Conference of Experts In Sydney. RADIO AND METEOROLOGICAL. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. November 25. The Australian Associated Press says that the Government is considering representation at a conference of Australian and New Zealand radio and meteorological experts, to be held in Sydney early in December in connection with the Tasman air mail. NON-STOP FLIGHT. R.A.F. to Attempt England to Australia Hop. TWIN-ENGINED BOMBER. LONDON, November 25. The aeronautical correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says he understands that the Royal Air Force is preparing for a non-stop flight from England to Australia with a modified twin-engined Vickers Wellington bomber capable of exceeding the range of the Vickers Wellesley bombers which recently flew from Ismailia, Egypt, to Port Darwin, breaking the world's non-stop longdistance record. CRASH INTO WOOD. NIGHT PRACTICE FATALITY. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, November 25. A Royal Air Force bomber, doing night practice in a rain storm, crashed in a wood at Alton, turned over and ploughed through the brushwood for 300 yards on its back. The pilot was killed and two others .injured. COMMERCIAL RECORD. CROYDON-PARIS IN 53 MINUTES (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 25. An Imperial Airways new type of Frobisher 'plane flew 'from Croydon to Paris in 53 minutes, a commercial record.