Strait Flight On Wing
(N.Z. Press Association) BLENHEIM, Aug. 25. “Yes, we would do it again, (but I think we would choose a warmer day," Mr R. Alexander, the first man to cross Cook Strait standing on the wing of an aeroplane, said after he and his pilot, Mr J. Moon, returned to Omaka aerodrome this afternoon. The feat was to commemorI ate the first flight across i Cook Strait 50 years ago. The first flight across the Strait was made in an Avro Av.u.i biplane by Captain E. Dickson, who, tomorrow, will ’ be in Blenheim to meet some of the people who helped him I make the historic flight.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32385, 26 August 1970, Page 6
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