REGULAR AIR SERVICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 229, 27 September 1928, Page 8

REGULAR AIR SERVICES.

PLANS OF SMITH AND ULM.

THOROUGH INQUIRY FIRST,

IN AMERICA AM) KUROFI

'B.v Telegraph.—Ow»- Correspondent.)

(JHRJ STCHURCH, Wed-nesday}. The first tmnp-Tasjniaii air ' Service

may bo started by- !S*t«adro»-Leader Kingsford Smith and Klightv-LteutenantJ l.'lm. '•■■ . . . ■ I

"Wβ oanrif.t eay with-ju»t a few daya': nr a few weeks' consideration what tvpo of. machine onn he iisAl, , nor caa \\n give the deteiU of the I'light-Lieutpnant V\m tfo-day. "Smithy. find I look forward to from 18 months. to two years' research in' both. Kurope >i rid JVe feel' confident that the Governrne/its on both sides of the' I'asman look favourably on the project. • '

"There are possiblitjes in' the developinput of air services in New' Zealand, t"O. It is impoesible to decide on the *piir of the moment what type of machine could be used, or what the • letaila of the Scheme would be: We know that such a scheme would be feasible. We know, too, that tfiere*are 2000 or 3000-types'-of aeroplanes pro•iuced in the world, and that one of these at least would be suitable, but a >;ieat deal of reseatdi• ha» to be done lie fore work can be started. If we were t o say that a service irom any one point I n another ia feasible, small companies without suf>iL'i«iit organisation, would be starting and doing no good. We have I icon very surprised to find how airminded New Zealand i«, and we think that it is very rapidly- developing an nir sense. The more of that there is ihe better."

The airman added that the air conditions in New Zealand would always lie rougher than in Australia, for the reason that th« country is so much more mountainous, but there -was no reason why there should not be a regular mv industry in the Dominion, as there is elsewhere.