FLIGHT TO NEW ZEALAND

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16227, 29 December 1926, Page 7

FLIGHT TO NEW ZEALAND

DAY AND NIGHT TRAVEL ENGLISH AVIATOR’S SCHEME (Australian and N Z. Cable Association.’) LONDON, Dec. 28. Commander Courtney is planning a lightning flight, to New Zealand by means of non-stop flights of 1200 miles (lay and night, using a large multi-engined flying boat. The scheme is still immature. A SEVEN-DAYS’ TRIP PILOT’S WAR RECORD (Sydney Sun Cables.) (Received December 29, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Doc. 28. Commander Courtney proposes to reach New Zealand in seven days at a speed of 100 miles an hour. .Ho was rejected when attempting to join the Air Force in war time because he wore glasses and therefore was valueless as a pilot. He enlisted as a mechanic and returned from France with the rank of FlightCommander. LAST FLIGHT OF R 33 OLD SHIP TO BE SCRAPPED LONDON, November 18. Tho Press Association understand that the E 33 made her last serious flight yesterday. The probability is that within the next few weeks the old airship which has now been in commission for 10 years, will make her final journey to Pulham, where she is to be “scrapped.” Tho R 33 may be said to have made more history than any other dirigible of her class. She has made many memorable flights, in the course of which 'she has collected data of incalculable value to the Air Ministry. Not the least of these was when she broke away in the storm from her mooring mast at Pulham, and, with her nose stove in, was buffeted about over the North Sea for two days before she was safely piloted home by Squadron Leader Booth.