BOEING AEROPLANES

Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 10

BOEING AEROPLANES

THEIR FUTURE USE

EXPENSIVE MACHINES

(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.")" DUNEDIN, This Day. "Set fire to them," was the reply of Mr. H. M. Mackay, manager of New Zealand Airways, Ltd., when asked what it was; intended to do with the two Boeing aeroplanes refused a licence by the Transport Co-ordination Board to operate services between Whangarei and Gisborne, Auckland and Wellington, and Christchurch and Dunedin. Were that threat carried into commission 75,000 dollars' worth, or more than £15,000, would go up in smoke. The price of each machine in America is 35,000 dollars. The cases containing the Boeings are the largest ever landed in Dunedin, measuring in length 33ft, in breadth lift 6in, and in depth Bft. Empty, each case weighs two tons, and with their much-discussed contents four and a half tons. In the meantime, the cases are being kept for use again, although the Controller of Civil Aviation expressed his dislike of this type of machine. One of the aeroplanes was towed from New Zealand Airways' premises this morning to the Taieri aerodrome for test flights.

To the layman they are fine machines. The engines develop 535 h.p. and carry a load of 23911b, including 5001b of freight. They have a seating space for four passengers.