BLIND FLYING TEST
AUSTRA Lf AN CON LOTION
AM. ( ( OiUMEEGLAL PILOTS ■ SYDNEY. Jan. 20. The Civil Aviation Department lias issued a notification that every airman in Australia holding a commercial pilot’s license, will lie required lo pass before the end of the year an exacting test in blind Hying, or lose his license. Pilots will be required to “spin” the plane while flying it blind, and also to stall it. and make n cross-country flight lasting an hour. Three high-speed American air liners have been ordered by Airlines of Australia, Limited, which intends to use them on the Sydnov-Brisbanc service. They are t.ri-motored Stinsons, which carry eight passengers at a cruising speed of 160 miles an Hour.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18918, 21 January 1936, Page 3
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