THE TASMAN FLIGHT
CHANGE IN CREW A change in the personnel of the crow of the Southern Cross for tho proposed Tasman flight is announced by Sir Charles Ivingsford Smith in a letter toMr. Beau Sniel, aviation officer to tho Vacuum Oil Company. . Mr. G. U. Allen, who was to have been the second pilot, has been released to allow him to fly back to Europe with the German, Ilans Bertram, and a successor to him has not yet been appointed. Mr. Pethybridge, a mechanic, will now travel by steamer to New Zealand with Mr. Afilcck, who will help to look after the machine while it is in the Dominion. The proposal to bring over a second aeroplane to carry passengers has been abandoned, arrangements having been made to give the job to a New Zealand commercial company. The old engines have been replaced in the Southern Cross, which will make a flight from Sydney to Newcastle for the purpose of testing the radio-telephone.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17948, 28 November 1932, Page 7
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164THE TASMAN FLIGHT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17948, 28 November 1932, Page 7
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