SAW PACIFIC PLANE
AOEANGI'S PASSENGERS' THRILL WITNESSED TAK EOFE VANCOUVER, June 22. Thrilled sit the sight of the first air)lano to span the Pacific as it winger! is way from Suva, passengers on ,oard R.M.M.H. Aorangi, of the Cann-lian-Australnsinii Royal Mail Dme, vhich docked here at S p.m. on Thurst:,y, recounted the story of: their experience. „ When the liner was one hour out 01 Sfivii en route to Honolulu, Captain Kangsford Smith and his crew took oil from the bead! II miles out of the •it v. The ship was within sight ol the beach as the large mono].lam' swept upward after a long run. H is reported thai every passenger on the Aorangi rushed to the rail to see the plane as it taxied over the smooth sands oil the beach and ros* into Ih«' air. Hats were waved in enthusiastic greetings as the airplane climbed above The island and headed south on to the last lap of its flight to Australia. "It was the thrill which comes once ia a lifetime," one of the passengers declared.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16705, 24 July 1928, Page 11
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178SAW PACIFIC PLANE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16705, 24 July 1928, Page 11
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