TASMAN FLIGHT.
LOCAL PILOTS APPREHENSIVE. TOO LATE IN SEASON. WELLINGTON, May 3. The announcement that SquadronLeader White would fly - the Codock from Australia to New Zealand on Saturday is greeted with some concern in aviation circles. There is a very Strong feeling among professional pilots that the flight should be prohibited owing to the lateness of the season and the fact that the machine is new and untried and that the pilot has never previously flown the Tasman. It i* pointed out that Sir Charles Kingsford Smith has said on more than one occasion that he did not relish flying the Tasman after the end of March. "This seems one of the occasions when the controllers of civil aviation might fcvell step in and prohibit what is unreservedly considered by those who know as a foolhardy affair,” said a prominent pilot to-day.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 4 May 1934, Page 5
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