LONG FLIGHT
LANCASTRIAN'S FEAT OHAKEA TO CLONCURRY tP.AJ AUCKLAND, July 26. What is probably the longest Hight ever made from New Zealand was accomplished by the Lancastrian of R.A.F. Transport Command which is talcing the New Zealand delegates to the Peace Conference in Paris. The aircraft, which is under the command of Squadron-leader A. J. Bradshaw, left Ohakea at 7.20 on Friday and flew non-stop to Cloncurry in Northern Australia, a distance of about 2100 miles.
It was originally intended that the Lancastrian should make Darwin its first stop, but although the aircraft left New Zealand with petrol for 19 hours’ normal flying it had to land at Cloncurry to re-fuel after only 13 hours in the air. Fairly fast time was made across, the Tasman and it is thought that more petrol was consumed than had been anticipated. Cloncurry is 900 miles from Darwin.
The aeroplane took off again later in the morning, arriving at Darwin at 3.30 p.m.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26216, 29 July 1946, Page 4
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