TRANS-TASMAN AIR MAIL
Service Considered to be Impracticable Until 1937 SIR KEITH SMITH’S VIEWS ORGANISATION INVOLVED iUnited Press Association—By Electric TelcgaspS Copyright). Received 11 a.m. to-day. . SYDNEY, To-day. Sir Keith Smith, in an address, made a prophecy that the operation of a regular trans-Tasman air mail will not be practicable until 1937. Ho said that will be for a punctual seven days a week service. An organisation similar to big shipping service? would be required. High speed flying boats, capable of 200 miles an hour, with a range of 1600 miles, would have to bo built and weather data would have to be specially collected over least two years. By 1937, however, it should be possible to breakfast in Sydney at S o’clock, dine in Wellington at six in the evening and have a safe, comforttable trip across the Tasman in between.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 6 March 1935, Page 7
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142TRANS-TASMAN AIR MAIL Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 6 March 1935, Page 7
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