TASMAN AIRMEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21803, 18 May 1934, Page 10

TASMAN AIRMEN

PREPARATIONS FOR RETURN COMPLETING ENGINE REPAIRS [iJY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION*] WELLINGTON, Thursday It is possiblo that Mr. C. T. P. Ulm will leave Wellington in the Faith in Australia on Sunday for Nincty-Milu Beach in readiness,for the return llinhfc across tho Tasman. Mr. Ulm stated to-day that the-part of the engine which it was thought might have to be imported from America had been found on examination to be good enough (o sec him back to Australia. Another part which \ias worn was being repaired in Wellington. It might i)e possible to trv tho engine on Saturday morning and a test (light might be made in the afternoon.

"It will be a good thing for aviation when the Faith in Australia or ariv other machine which comes across the Tasmau will land at Rongotai and bo welcomed by no one except the officials there and anyone else who happens to be living about, for that will show clearly that people realise I hat the davs of sensationalism in living are over." said Mr. Ulm at a luncheon tendered to him to-day by the Australian Society. "The man in the street will know that a machine is on the wav and h<! will know just as surely that that machine will arrive." Jn the early days of Hying, the sensational side had, naturally, been featured, and long-distance flights were regarded as highly .sensational and hazardous, .continued Mr. Win. Aviation bad suffered as a result, but today the view was changing. "Wo look forward to the day when experimental Hying will bo over, but before that dav conies, it will bo necessary for the Governments in both countries to give sunport to essential preliminary work. I believe it has been necessary in every part of the world for the Governments concerned to subsidise in some wav aviation activities in their early stages, and that, 1 think, will bo tho case here."