WELLINGTON-CHRISTCHURCH BY AIR
ONE HOUR AND TEN MINUTES Shrinking the distance between Christchurch' and Wellington seems to be easy to the Miles Falcon of Union Airways. The time of one hour 22 minutes set 10 days or so ago seemed startling, but two days later eight minutes was clipped off that. On Wednesday, in an ordinary flight with the engine turning over only at its normal cruising revolutions, the time was lowered again. Mr Mr G. R. White, one of the company’s chief pilots, was flying the Falcon. His passengers were Mr M. 0. McGregor, service manager of the company, and Wing Commander T. M. Wilkes, Director o? Air Services, who kept a close eye on his watch. From the moment the machine began to taxi on Rongotai till it stopped at Wigram was only one hour 10 minutes. Some day the Falcon will have a following wind all the way.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 10 January 1936, Page 5
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