CODOCK FLIGHT
WILL BE MADE
N.Z, SUGGESTION NOT ACCEPTED
(Australian Press Association)
(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) (MELBOURNE, May 7.
The Civil Aviation Department does not intend to accept the suggestion from (New Zealand to prohibit the flight in the Codlock monoplane over the Tasman. The superintendent of flying operations (Mr Ross), who participated in the Odoek’s trial flights, certified to both the pilot and machine. Therefore Squadron-Leader White will he able to carry out the flight, providing he carries no passenger.
Squadron-Leader White, who is now in Sydney, declares there is no hope ;of flying the Tasman before May 18.
AUSTRALIA’S AIR DEFENCE
24 NEW MACHINES ORDERED
(Received this day at 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 7,
The Minister for Defence has announced that twenty-four Seagull V amphibian planes have been ordered from England, the cost of which, landed in Australia, will be £345,000. These machines may be catapulted from cruisers jor seaplane carriers. They have ;a speed of 120 miles an hour at five thousand feet, and can dive at the rate of 200 an hour. Their range with a full bomb load is three hundred miles.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1934, Page 5
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