replacements FOR DAKOTAS
Types Available To N.A.C.
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. April 30. A possible replacement for the Dakota aircraft used by the Natl 011 ®,, Airways Corporation, the Handley Page Herald, would be offered with twin turbo-prop powering, a s well as in the originally proposed four-engined piston powering, the Minister in charge of Civil Aviation (Mr T. P. Shand) said tonight. Mr Shand said both the Herald and the Dutch Fokker Friendship! would need a load-factor as high as 65 per cent, to pay. For branch line work, no aircraft had yet been devised really to replace the Dakota. Sir Frederick Handley Page, while in New Zealand recently, had been critical of the twinengined turbo-prop powering for the branch airliner, but he had just advised that the Herald would be available with these units. It would have the same power units as the Fokker. The Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer was another New Zealand prospect, but like others it revealed. under flight conditions, “the same old story” of costs getting too high.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28265, 1 May 1957, Page 7
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