TASMAN FLIGHT.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 148, 5 September 1928, Page 3

TASMAN FLIGHT.

ANOTHER POSTPONEMENT. READY AT A MOMENT’S NOTICE. (Australian and N.Z. Press Assn.) SYDNEY, September 4. Owing to cyclonic conditions prevailing over part of the Tasman Sea, the flight of the Southern Cross was again postponed. If the weather reports are favorable the flight will commence to-morrow afternoon at six o’clock. Squadron-Leader Ivingsford-Smith and Flight-Lieut. C. T. P. Ulm are staying at the officers’ mess at Richmond, 37 miles from Sydney, ready to take off at a moment’s notice. Everything depends on the weather reports from New Zealand. The Defence Department here has ordered the destroyer Anzac, to sea, to remain in the line of the flight, as the cruiser Brisbane, returning from Honolulu, is too far off. ROUTE OF THE FLIGHT. ACROSS THE ALPS. CHRISTCHURCH, September 4. According to the New Zealand Air Force officers at the Wigram aerodrome, it is expected that the Southera Cross will fly a practically straight route from Sydney to Christchurch aver the Southern Alps, and will not come via Cook Strait unless the weather is too cloudy over the mountains. The former course represents an air line distance of 1167 nautical miles, or 1344 land miles. The distance from Sydney to Greymouth is 1075 nautical miles, and from Greymonth to Christchurch 92 nautical miles. A straight line drawn on the chart from Sydney to Christchurch passes between Greymouth and Hokitika.