SOUTHERN CROSS ENGINE
T.E.A.L. To Display Relic
One of the three Wright Whirlwind engines used by the Southern Cross, which made the first flight across the Tasman Sea, has been obtained by T.E.A.L. through Mr G. N. Wells, Auckland station manager, and is to be put on display. He obtained it through the Australian Government.
It was put into condition by the R.N.Z.A.F. technical school at Hobsonville, and would be quite suitable now for operation. It generates 200 h.p., which means the three-engined Southern Cross made her historic trip from the United States to Australia and then to New Zealand on 600 h.p. As the engines of the new Lockheed Electras to go into operation by T.E.A.L. are each of 3880 h.p., this means that this type of machine of four engines will do the Tasman trip with 15,520 h.p.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29048, 10 November 1959, Page 16
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