NON-STOP TASMAN FLIGHT
2700 Miles In Less Than 12 Hours JOURNEY BY HASTINGS PLANE (New Zealand Press AHOdaUoe) I AUCKLAND. AuS’jJ L A Hastings four-engined plane from No. 41 Squadron. wnOTJ pai, flew non-stop to back on Saturday, well within “Er The plane lett Whenuapai double crew of eight men at «1S and returned to its base about w* after a 2700-mile flight. . . The aircraft was risce Squadron Leader R- B. flu commanding No. 41 Sc l“ ad £2^ nua ii commanding officer or ’’"".a Group Captain R. Webb, was co The plane arrived over airfield, near Newcastle, »t D, .-,.1 (New Zealand time). It eruuwo . the coast to Sydney, and W» course for New Groun Captain Webb la JZE that, although the flight the first non-ston return trtb Ir , ap Zealand to Australia, it ’’as sidered a “stunt flight by p Force. It was simply ».‘“'“‘ gtt navigational exercise, and it incidental that the course c d to Australia and back. « been anywhere out to sea'S I
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26800, 4 August 1952, Page 6
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