ANTARCTIC FLIGHT
A defective compass delayed for 12 hours the departure of a Royal New Zealand Air Force Hercules which left Christchurch for the Antarctic yesterday. Originally the Hercules was to have left the airport for McMurdo Sound at 9.30 a.m., 1
but soon after taxi-ing to the runway the big plane return ed with a report of a compass fault. A spare component had to be flown from Whenuapai. With the fault rectified the Hercules left Christchurch at 9.30 p.m. for the 2300-mile flight to McMurdo Sound,
where it was due to land about 4 a.m. The aircraft will leave McMurdo Sound at 9.30 a.m. today. The delay is not expected greatly to affect the original operational schedule, though Thursday’s flights will probably be a little later. The captain of the Hercules, Wing Commander B. A.
Wood, said yesterday the flight, the first ever made to the Antarctic by a New Zealand aircraft, would be “just routine.” There were 23 persons aboard on the first flight. The photograph shows men on their way to McMurdo Sound loading their gear.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30892, 27 October 1965, Page 1
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