WELLINGTON AERO CLUB

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21362, 16 June 1931, Page 8

WELLINGTON AERO CLUB

'♦ s ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR APPOINTED FLIGHT-LIEUTENANT G. B. BOLT. . ’ / (Peg United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 15. Recognised as one of the best pilots in the Dominion ■with a reputation for ability as an aeronautical engineer,. Flightlieutenant G. B. Bolt has been appointed assistant instructor and ground engineer to the Wellington Aero Club. Having learned to fly at Walsh Bros, flying school at Kohimarama, Auckland* in 1917, Flight-lieutenant Bolt has been a promi nent figure in New Zealand aviation ever since that time. Making aviation his carrer he joined the staff of the flying school, and being a pilot of both seaplanes and land planes he was connected with the experimental aerial mail services which were undertaken some 10 years ago. On one of his flights in tho far north with Bishop Cleary as his passenger his seaplane broke down when just outside Hokianga Heads. It happened that a pair of racing pigeons were aboard and these were released with a message, “ Machine broken down outside Hokianga Heads. Send rocker valve. H. Cleary," and duly reached their Auckland loft. Assistance was then sent. Two years ago Flight-lieutenant Bolt and Squadron-leader Stedman were employed as pilots of the Avro Avians of the Goodwin-Chichester Aviation Company, and in this capacity gave joy rides to hundreds of people in the Wellington district. Then he joined the Dominion Airlines and was sent to England as their representative, visiting all the leading firms and factories connected with the aviation industry and gathering information concerning the various types of machines and their suitability for New Zealand conditions. He made a study of commercial services and more than once acted as second pilot on the big air Ijners used by the Imperial Airways, Ltd., on their London-Paris service. As pilot of the De Souttcr monoplane owned by the Dominion Airlines and whigh later crashed and killed Flight-lieutenant I. L. Right, who had relieved him, and two passengers, he the GisborneHastings air service. He "was connected with the aerial relief measures during the recent' Hawke’s Bay earthquake, and when the Dominion Airlines went into liquidation he took up a position with the New Zealand Airways at Dunedin. APPOINTMENT OF SECRETARY. (Per United Press Association 1 WELLINGTON, June 15. Mr A. W. Nisbet has been appointed secretary of the Wellington Aero Club, replacing Mr H. B. Burdekin, a member of the Unemployment Board, who has resigned. Mr Nisbet came to Wellington two years ago from Marlborough, where he was a foundation member of the Aero Club. He formed the Hutt Aero Club, which later merged- with the Wellington Club, and has been an active member of the Wellington Club’s executive.