FLIGHT TO NEW ZEALAND
THE TASMAN CROSSING PCSSIBILITY OF FURTHER DELAY LANDING PLACE NOT VET SELECTED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, July 14. (Received July 4.4, at 9.30 a.m.) Lieutenant Ulm, in discussing the New Zealand flight, stated that there was a vague possibility that the Tasman (light might ho delayed until August 3.1. Tim organisation was not by any means completed. Nothing was being left to chance. A trial, flight with the Southern Cross would be held in about a fortnight’s time. The wireless apparatus was undergoing a complete overhaul, and would be in a. better condition than it was when the aeroplane left San Francisco. Mr Ulm anticipates that the NewZealand flight will begin about 9 o’clock at night, and tho ’piano will reach New Zealand fourteen to nineteen hours later. He said that many requests had been received from various towns in New Zealand asking them to land at each particular place. This was a matter to which they were looking to the dominion Government for guidance. Meanwhile no landing ground had been selected.
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Evening Star, Issue 19918, 14 July 1928, Page 10
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176FLIGHT TO NEW ZEALAND Evening Star, Issue 19918, 14 July 1928, Page 10
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