TASMAN AIR SERVICE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 December 1935, Page 7

TASMAN AIR SERVICE

AUSTRALIAN COMPANY TO CARRY ON

IN OPERATION BY NEXT JUNE

(United PreßS Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

SYDNEY, 18th December.

The “Telegraph’s” aviation writer says that Lady Kingsford-Smitli decided at a meeting of the trans-Tasman Air Development Company, Limited, to carry on the company with her own resources. She will accept the seat on the board of directors of the company which was occupied by her husband. . . -■ The company will proceed with plans for the Australia-New Zealand service, and will not modify the late Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s plans for its operation. Mr Beau Sliiel, a director of the company, states that the service will be conducted with two American Sikorsky clipper ships, and he expects that it will be operating by June, lado.

FLYING DISPLAY, LIMITED LONDON, 17th December. A company entitled C. W. A. Scott s Flying Display, Ltd., has acquired from Sir Alan Cobham aircraft and. other assets for a national aviation display. Mr Scott is chairman, and the directors include Mr T. Campbell Black and Miss Jean Batten. _ . The company aims at popularising flying, affording novices opportunities of dual control. NEW FOKKER MACHINE IMPROVED TECHNICAL METHODS AMSTERDAM, 18th December. Mr Fokker announces that his firm is constructing a trans-Atlantic machine of unsual power and cruising radius on an entirely new priciple, based on the study of aerodynamics. Improved technical methods will enable greater carrying capacity than was hitherto possible. He claims that the machine will be far superior to all its foreign competitors. FORCED LANDING MADE VIENNA, 18th December. The aviator Gropler niadeva forced landing at Komarno, Czechoslovakia, owing to ice forming on the wings. TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND (By Telegraph—Press Association} AUCKLAND, 18tli December. The New Zealand Tasman flyer, Mr W. M. O’Hara, whose pilot’s licence was cancelled by the Australian autl~ orities has been granted a license in .the Dominion and plans to commence a tour of the country by air on Boxing Day. Mr O’Hara will fly solo. EMPIRE MAIL SERVICES AUCKLAND, 18th December. The Prime Minister. Mr M. J. Savage, said that Cabinet had not had the opportunity to look into the Empire air-mail services. It was snowed under with urgent matters, the chief of which was providing food for the unemployed during the Christmas season.