IS IT A FAIR RETORT?
When il was intimated to the bitterly disappointed Captain Moody by the Federal Cabinet that permission would not be given him to make his proposed flight over Tasman Sea to Now Zealand, he ret or led: “If there bad been a Board of Control in Captain Cook’s day, Australia would possibly never have been found.” He might liavejtdde.d that neither would Columbus have discovered America. Certainly the little ship in which Columbus made his voyage of. disco.vtry to our eyes to-day looks less trustworthy than a monoplane in the hands of a skilled pilot and navigator. Nothing venture, nothing win: and if- Captain Moody and his associate properly and adequately test their machine, adequately equip it with a radio and prove they can oper ate it and navigate Die ’plane to New Zealand, we think Premier Bruce should allow the aviators to maim the flight.
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Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1312, 25 January 1928, Page 4
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