STUNT FLYING DISLIKED
AMERICAN'S CRITICISM VISITOR TO AUSTRALIA (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Formerly a motorist and war pilot and chief inspector and aircraft test pilot to the American Government, Major V. K. Bertrandias. now the export sales manager of Douglas Aircraft. Limited, is a. passenger by the Maiiposa, travelling to Australia to assist in assembling and testing the 14-passeuger Douglas D.C. 3 machine entering the Melbourne-Tasnniniaii service for llolynmil Airways, lie will also train Australian pilots in (he technique of (lying this type of air liner. lie recently has been to Japan and China, where, he says, aviation is making rapid strides. He disapproves of stunt living, believing that aviation has been made, 100 heroic rather than a stable profession. The lives of such flyers as the late Sir Charles [vingsford Smith and Mr. C. T. P. Dim were too valuable to risk in stunt Hying. Mrs. Bertrandias, who is accompanying her husband, was a movie actress under the name of Marguerite Clayton.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 6
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