TASMAN AIR SERVICE.

Grey River Argus, 27 August 1928, Page 5

TASMAN AIR SERVICE.

GERMAN ENTERPRISE. LONDON OBSERVATIONS. LONDON, August 21. TiTe German company s proposal to the Commonwealth to subsidise the Australian and New Zealand flyingboat sc-vvico ha;.' aroused interest in London. The company m the Darnicr Wahl Flying Boat Coy., which sent a letter tu Mr Brindsmead, Director of Civil Aviation, .seeking his opinion in regard to the possibility of secu'ir.g a mail subsidy for a company starting such a service for metal flying boats, equipped with four, six or more British engines. The British imperial Airways always understood that the Australian cumpanic'S desired control at their own end of the Anglo-Australian-New Zealand services. If the Australian companies arc not prepared to avail themselvl's of any government sub sidy, no difficulty would be offered London organising an All-British service for Australia, Now Zealand and Tasmania. Any claim that flyin boats possessed, a cruising range of two thousand miles, carrying fifteen passengers, could easily be tested by standard practice -u- England, ui Europe, wlieru plants with fifteen passengers, or the equivalent iu freight, had to re fuel every five hundred or six hundred miles. Some- of the longer German routes carried fewer passengers at higher fares. THE LUCKIEST MANSYDNEY AIRMAN’B CRASH. SYDNEY, August 25. Frederick Rowe, 38, testing an nproplane over St. Peter’s suburb, when his W.H.5 machine developed a tail spin towards the earth from over 2000 feet. He succeeded in flattening the machine' out only thirty feetr from the caath, when it crashed heavily and completely wrecked He escaped with a black eye and lacerations. Rowe exclaimed to a spectator-help-er: “I am the luckiest man in the world,” and lit a cigarette. He is now in the hospital. JAPANESE PASSENGER SERVICES (Received August 16 at 5.5 p.m.) TOKYO, August 25. Commenc-ing on August 27th, the “Asahi” newspaper is starting a regular a roplane passenger service, three times weekly from Tokyo to O-aka, and also a service between Tokyo and Sendai.