LONG SOLO FLIGHT
MR. MASE TO START NEXT WEEK ' ENGLAND TO NEW ZEALAND Dominion Special Service. Auckland, March 8. The Auckland airman, Mr. Frank Mase, is expected to leave England on his attempt to fly to New .Zealand on March 18. He will probably start from Southampton. The flight from England has been promoted by an Auckland company known as Aviation, Limited, which was formed for the purpose of exploiting commercial flying, passenger transport, the carriage of mails, and the selling of light aeroplanes. Mr. Mase was sent Home in December to secure the Simmonds-Spartan agency and to fly out to New Zealand in a machine of the same type. The flight has been subsidised by an oil company, which has laid down supplies of oil along'the route. Mr. Mase will follow the route taken by Hinkler on his return journey to Australia. This will be from Southampton via Constantinople, Bagdad, Basra, Bushire, Bundar Abbas, Karachi, Allahabad, Calcutta, Akyab, Rangoon, Victoria Point, Penang, Singapore, Batavia,'Surabaya, Kupang, Port Darwin, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart and Invercargill.
Mr. Mase’s flying experience covers over 800 hours in 40 different types of machines. .
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 140, 9 March 1929, Page 8
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187LONG SOLO FLIGHT Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 140, 9 March 1929, Page 8
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