AERIAL NAVIGATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 6 January 1928, Page 5

AERIAL NAVIGATION.

TRANS-TASMAN FLIGHT. AVIATORS OPTIMISTIC. • Press Association-Electric Telegraph-Copyright SYDNEY, Thursday. The New Zealand aviators. Captain Kight, Captain Hood and Lieutenant Monerieff express great satisfaction with their monoplane, and anticipate no difficulty in making the Tasman flight, but they intend to take no risks, and will not hop off until the conditions are absolutely in their favour! They anticipate leaving Sydney at about 2 o’clock in the morning and landing at Wellington at 6 o’clock in. the evening, or thereabouts. They will head direct to Farewell Spit. The aviators are almost certain to be Lieutenant Monerieff and Captain Hood. Both of these men speak most highly of Captain Right’s organisation and the arrangements made with the Australian Government. Captain- Kight says that everything has gone smoothly from the jump. The mechanics arc now working on the machine, making it as perfect as possible for the epic flight. TO START ON MONDAY. (By Telegraph—Prets Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Dr. Ividson, Director of the Meteorological Department, has received a cable message from the Meteorological Office,. Sydney, stating that .the airmen are planning to leave Australia on the llight across* the Tasman SI a to New Zealand about 2 a.m. on Monday next. Arrangements are.being made for a special train from. Wellingthn to Trentham to witness the arrival of the transTasman (flyers. The time of departure of the train cannot be settled, of course, until word is received, of the start of the flight and probable time of arrival of the airplane, but the Railway De--partment will be advised at once, and ample notice thus' be secured to the public of the time the train will pull out from Lambton.