TRANSTASMAN FLIGHT.
BRISBANE TO AUCKLAND.
PLANS OF LIEUT. FREWEN.
POSSIBLE ATTEMPT NEXT WEEK. PETROL AT NORFOLK ISLAND. An attempt to cross the Tastnan by aeroplane from Brisbane to Auckland may be made early next week by FlightLieutenant K. M. Frewen, a wellknown Australian aviator. Norfolk Island has been chosen for a mid-ocean stop, and arrangements have been made for the steamer Hinemoa, which left Auckland on Thursday evening, to land 20 cases of petrol there to-morrow. The Auckland agents for an oil company interested in the flight have already selected a landing ground at Mangere. ' Although official opinion is against the use of land machines for extended ocean flights, it is not expected that opposition will be raised on this ground. FlightLieutenant Frewen proposes to fly alone, and it is estimated the journey will occupy 12 hours. The machine is a Bristol Fighter known in Australia as "The Stornibird." It is equipped with a 500 h.p. Siddeley-Puma engine. The distance along the route proposed is 1220 miles, the first lap from Brisbane to Norfolk Island being 820 miles. The non-stop distance from Sydney to Auckland would be 1162 miles.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19744, 17 September 1927, Page 10
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189TRANSTASMAN FLIGHT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19744, 17 September 1927, Page 10
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