AVIATION
MELROSE’S JOURNEY
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(Reed. April IS. 10.30 a.m.) AKYAB, April 17. Melrose has arrived from Calcutta
STUNTS DENOUNCED.
AUCKLAND, April 17.
Formerly a war pilot, and later chief inspector and aircraft test pilot for the American Government, Major V. E Bertrandias, now export sales manager for Douglas Aircraft, Limited, is a passenger by the Mariposa, travelling to Australia to assist in assembling ana testing the fourteen-passen-ger Douglas DC2 machines entering the Melbourne-Tasmanian service for Holvman Airways. He will also train Australian pilots in the technique of flying this type of air liner. He has recently been to Japan and China, where he says aviation is making rapid strides. r „ He disapproves of stunt flying, believing tnat aviation nas been made too heroic, rather than a stable piofession. The lives of such as Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Mr. G. iT. P. Ulm were too valuable to risk in stunt flying. Mrs. Bertrandias is accompanying her husband. She was a movie actress under the name of Marguerite Clayton.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1936, Page 7
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