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PLANES CROSSING TASMAN SEA. COMMENT ON CRITICISM MADE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Commenting on the criticism of Messrs. R. Whitehead and R. Nicholl for the risk they took in commencing a flight across the Tasman Sea with a greater weight of petrol than the machine’s certificate of airworthiness allowed, Mr. Spencer R. Mason, president of the Auckland Aero Club and a member of the committee which organised the entry of Squadron-Leader J. D. Hewett and Flying-Officer C. E. Kay in the centenary race, has pointed out that nearly all long flights are made with machines laden beyond the provisions of their normal certificates.
Every crossing of the Tasman Sea except one, he thought, had been made in machines considerably overladen, in some cases by as much as 100 per cent. The exception was the D.H. Dragon piloted by Hewett and Kay.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1934, Page 4
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