LEAVING TODAY
TRANS-TASMAN PLANE
FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA
(Received July 6, 11 a.m.)
LONDON, July 5,
Tomorrow the New Zealanders Captain J. W. Burgess and First Officer Oscai Garden are to take out the fly-ing-boat Australia, the first of the 21£t'on machines destined for the transThe Awarua will fol-
Tasman service, low immediately,
It is revealed that a Vickers-Welling-ton bomber, which is now being extensively produced, could be specially equipped for a non-stop flight from England almost to Australia.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 5, 6 July 1939, Page 9
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