U.S. ADMIRAL’S FLIGHT

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28539, 19 March 1958, Page 14

U.S. ADMIRAL’S FLIGHT

First With R.N.Z.A.F. Many times in the last three years and a half the host to New Zealand airmen in American planes, the commander of the United States Antarctic expedition (Rear-Admiral George Du feh? yesterday afternoon flew tor .the- first time as a guest of the Roy*l NW Zealand” Air For-e

Admiral Dufek was returnins to Christchurch from Wellington where “he had been to meet Sir Edmund Hillary and Sir Vivian Fuchs on their return* from the Antarctic. His personal Skymastei aircraft was in Hawaii and was not due back iii New Zealand until, today, so the admiral accepted the invitation of the Air Force to fly south in a Devon plane. ■-

A United States Navy DC-6 transport aircraft is scheduled to arrive at Harewood tomorrow to take back to the United States men who have been serving with the Antarctic expedition, It ’s planned that 46 men—including scientists, a journalist, and staff officers—will fly in the aircraft, uzhich is due to leave bn Sunday Other flights will be made to the United States on March 28 and April 2.