ACROSS THE PACIFIC

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1925, Page 8

ACROSS THE PACIFIC

PROPOSED AEROPLANE VIIGHT

ABANDiS(M ERIOAN

Considerable interest was aroused ' in the recont report that in association with tho projected visit of the American Fleet to New Zealand and Australia, an attempt would be mado by Americans to fly from San Francisco to Honolulu, and : thence fe-«%, Zealand, and Australia. , O.'his stimulated a Now Zealand effort to make '«tSl Rn f aor?-" t!ie Tasman, the organisation for which is under way. Aewsi has boen received officially howfll^hV I ati "le i. AT" Cill trans-Pacißo flight has been abandoned for official reasons It is stated by Mr. Curtis Wilbur that tho flight cannot bo arranged in conuect.on w .t h the Fleet manoeuvres at Honolulu,-because it would so disturb these movements as to practically destroy the object in holding them. This is caused by the, necessity of detailing a ffreat number of ships, as had to be done on the occaswri of the round-the-world flight, to guard the route. ' The Navy Department, however, added Mr. Wilbur is developing ■ *•' plan by : wlifch'-' it 'is hfeea to have a non-stop flight from San Francisco to Honolulu, and if this is satisfactory the. matter, of extending the flight to Australia. _ and New Zealand may be taken up again, but no flight can be made during the Fleet's manoeuvres at Honc^ lulu on its crui^ to. these waters.