AVIATION NEWS
The Aero Club's Waco machinag" which left Wellington yesterday aftejS noon for Hawera to carry Out its firs* ambulance job, made remarkably goocjfi time on the trip north. Taking off aH. Rongotai at 2.50 p.m., the Hawerafl aerodrome was reached, ■ against ; a| steady northerly breeze, at • 4.20, ■thare machine's average air speed being ap-f proximately 116 miles per hour.- Advic<» received by the secretary of the" Aerdi Club this morning states that the Wacflf left Hawera at 10 a.m., passing over! Paekakariki at 11 a.m., the Blenheim aerodrome being reached at 11.40, orj an elapsed time of 1 hour 40 minute^ for the run of 193 miles from Hawera to Blenheim. Up to the time of goin^g to press, advice Had not been reeeivea of the machine's arrival at Oamaru, biijj Captain Bolt anticipated reaching thera at 3 p.m. ■ * *i Mr. J. Cane arrived yesterday after^. noon at 3.50 o'clock from Mastertora with Miss J. McKenzie as passengerj and he left again at 5.30 p.m. Mm Cane was piloting his Avro Av?*n« ■ j
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 11
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175AVIATION NEWS Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 11
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