13 PLANES FOR FLIGHT

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28540, 20 March 1958, Page 7

13 PLANES FOR FLIGHT

South Island Itinerary

The proposed “People’s Day” at the Royal New Zealand Air Force station, Wigram, on April 19 has been cancelled because of Air Board policy hot to permit more than one “opeif ’ day in New Zealand each year.

Ohakea will have the “open’’ day on March 29 and the South Island will have substituted for the people’s day a 13-plane formation flight over most towns. The formation will be the biggest since World War II and will take three days to cover the island—April 11. 12 and 14.

The formation will comprise 12 Harvard machines from the Wigram Flying Training School led by Squadron-Leader J. N. Trolove, officer commanding the school. The officer in charge at Wigram (Group Captain T. J. M de Lange) will fly in the thirteenth plane, a Devon. The itinerary, announced by the Air Force yesterday, is as follows: Friday, April 11.—Wigram (7.30 am.), Darfield, Glentunnel, Hororata, Methven, Geraldine, Fairlie, Kurow, Duntroon, Naseby, Ranfurly, Hyde, Middlemarch, Taieri (10 a.m. to 11 a.m.; morning tea). Milton, Balclutha. Clinton, Gore, Mataura, Wyndham. Woodlands, Invercargill (on ground for lunch), Bluff, Riverton, Otautau, Winton, Lumsden. Queenstown, Wanaka, Cromwell, Alexandra, Roxburgh, Lawrence. Taieri (overnight stop). Saturday, .April 12.—Taieri (9 a.m.), Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Palmerston, Oamaru, Waimate, Timaru, Temuka, Ashburton. Rakaia, Southbridge, Lincoln, Christchurch, Wigram.

Monday, April 14.—Wigram (7.30 a.m.), Kaiapoi, Rangiora, Amberley, Waipara. Hawarden, Waiau, Kaikoura, Picton, Blenheim, Woodbourne, (morning tea), Havelock, Nelson (lunch), Motueka, Glenhope, Murchison, Inangahua Junction, Westport, Reefton, Brunner, Greymouth, Hokitika (afternoon tea), Ross, Kumara, Otira, Arthur’s Pass, Cass, Springfield, Sheffield, Oxford, Wigram.