FLIGHT LIEUTENANT ULM’S SUCCESS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 287, 5 December 1933, Page 4

FLIGHT LIEUTENANT ULM’S SUCCESS

J7LYIXG the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand has

been accomplished four times now that Flight Lieutenant Ulm has made a safe landing at New Plymouth. The newness Ims, however, not altogether worn off the adventure. That the aviator should have added to his responsibilities by including two ladies among his passengers adds to the quality of his most recent achievement. It indeed advertises the fact that, given proper preparations, favourable weather conditions, and a sound machine, the Tasman flight has ceased to be a hazardous adventure. Three preceding flights are, however, not enough to lift the route out of the category of pioneer flying, and for that reason Flight Lieutenant Ulm and his companions are entitled to all of the praise that is being showered on them. The flight has demonstrated the growing confidence of aviators in themselves, their machines, and the organisations which assist them, and holds out promise of the comparatively early establishment of transtasman aviation services. Distance is being eliminated every day, and the four-day sea trip between Australia and New Zealand will, before long, have been reduced to a one-day air trip.