FLIGHT ACROSS TASMAN

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 May 1934, Page 4

FLIGHT ACROSS TASMAN

PROJECT FOR CODOCK ’PLANE WELLINGTON AIRMEN CONCERNED LATENESS OF THE SEASON MACHINE “NEW AND UNTRIED” (By fe'ograpli—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 3. The announcement that SquadronLeader l r . W. White would fly the Codock aeroplane from Australia to New Zealand on Saturday has been greeted with some concern in aviation circles. There is a very strong feeling among professional pilots that the flight .should be prohibited owing to the lateness of the season and the facte that the machine is new and untried and that the pilot has never previously flown the Tasman. It is pointed out that Sir Charles Kings ford -Smith lias said on more than one occasion that he did not relish flying the Tasman after the end of March. “This seems one occasion when the controllers of civil aviation might well jstep.in... and prohibit what -is unreservedly considered by those who know as a foolhardy affair,” said a prominent pilot to-day.

LANDING GROUND UNCERTAIN AUCKLAND OR NEW PLYMOUTH AUCKLAND, May 3. The , G'odoek monoplane, which if weather conditions are suitable will leave Sydney on a trans-Tasman flight on Saturday piloted by SquadronLeader T. W. White, Timaru, will probably land at Auckland or New Plymouth. •Mr T. S. Withers, organiser of Dominion Airways, Ltd., said advice where the machine would land was being awaited from Sir Charles Kingsford. Smith. If the landing were made at tiie Maiigere aerodrome the monoplane probably would first circle New Plymouth.