LONG-DISTANCE FLYING
MR HAROLD CATTY'S VIEWS AMERICAN PLANES FOR TASMAN SERVICE. (Pee United Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 24. Mr Harold Catty, technical adviser to the United States Army Air Force, who arrived in Auckland to-day from Sydney, stated that flying boats to accommodate 24 passengers, with a speed of 150 miles an hour, would be used in the San Francisco-Hongkong service, which would start about next November. This service, he thought, was fully justified by the large number of passengers now carried by ships. The fares would be double the steamer fares, but the planes would' take three and a-half days compared with 18 days at least by a steamer. Mr Catty said he agreed with Sir Charles Kingsford Smith that American planes should at present be used for the Tasman service.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22659, 26 August 1935, Page 10
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