ANOTHER TASMAN FLIGHT

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21154, 3 May 1934, Page 9

ANOTHER TASMAN FLIGHT

MR ULM COMING NEXT WEEK

GOODWILL MESSAGES (Received May 2, 10.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 2. Mr C. T. P. Ulm intends to tackle the Tasman Sea again in his aeroplane Faith in Australia. Next Wednesday, weather permitting, he will fly to New Zealand from Richmond aerodrome, taking goodwill messages from the Governor-Gen-eral (Sir Isaac Isaacs) and the Prime Minister (Mr J. A. Lyons), which are special replies to those recently brought to Australia from the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) by Mr A. B. Lane, manager of the New Zealand United Press Association. Mr Ulm says no mail will be carried this time. It is merely a goodwill visit. The same crew will accompany him as on the last occasion. He hopes to return to Sydney on Friday or Saturday. CODOCK TO LEAVE ON SATURDAY NEW ZEALAND PILOT SYDNEY, May 2. Mr T. W. White will fly the newly-built Codock monoplane to New Zealand from Sydney on Saturday, if the weather permits. Mr T. W. White was an officer in the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 and 1917, and saw war service, which ended when he was taken prisoner. He spent some time in a German prison camp. He began flying again after the war in 1924 with the New Zealand Air Force, attending its refresher courses. When the Hawke's Bay and East Coast Aero Club was formed, he was its first instructor. He left it to join New Zealand Airways, Ltd., Timaru, as chief pilot, a position he held till he left New Zealand for Australia several months ago. Last j year he flew the Southern Cross Kitten, a tender aeroplane to the Southern Cross, on its tour of the Dominion. In 1931 he was promoted, in the New Zealand Air Force, to the rank of I squadron leader, commanding No. 4 squadron. He is to be chief pilot of! the company which is to operate an I air service in New Zealand with Codock machines similar to the one I he is to fly across the Tasman. The Codock, a high-wing monoplane with two Napier Javelin 150 horse-power engines, was designed by Wing Commanrier Wackett, of the Royal Australian Air Force. It follows normal Fokker practice in having a welded steel fuselage and a ply-wood-covered wing. It is designed to carry six passengers, each with 251b of luggage, and 501b of mail. In recent tests it proved to have a top speed of more than 140 miles an hour. It can cruise at 125 miles an hour, and with one engine out of action can still climb, at low altitudes, and can cruise at 85 miles an hour. Commander Bennetts, formerly of the Royal Australian Navy, who will accompany Mr White, is an experienced aerial navigator.