FLYING EXHIBITIONS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1240, 23 September 1911, Page 4

FLYING EXHIBITIONS.

A NEW ZEALAND AVIATOR. (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent! Auckland, September 22, Several attempts liavo been mode bj amateur airmen to fly ill Now Zealand, but so. far very few of the public bave ever seen an aeroplane. Therefore, Iho opportunity would lw eagerly grasped should fin export at the came pivo exhibitions. Mr. Hammond, the New Zealand aviator, who is now in Auckland, was yesterday asked Ms intentions in this rcspect, and the reply was that Iho question was pure]v on« 'of finance. lie would want a, guarantee of homo J23000 to brings his machine to Auckland, for, as ho ntuvely intimated, "You can see flying as well outside the fence as in." It is a big undertnViiu to conduct flying exhibitions, Mr Hammond has one monoplano maouino in Franco, with a Gnome engine, which alone cost „C9GO. If lie came to Now Zealand lie would ix> quiro to bring two machines, which would run into a cost of X2IOO, and, 111 addition, a couple of skilled ■ mechanics. Of oourse, qj9 ho said, ho could bnnffoiw machine, but tliat would possibly lead to a lot of tronblo and disappointment to the public. It was possible ill an instant to break 6ome part of the machine union would take five or six hours to repair, * If there woro two machines, th 6 airman, could at once chaiißC, and savotho publie from disanointment. Mr. Hammond is slaving in Auckland for two or three days,'and will then return to l'cildipg. If'sufficient inducement oft 4" ? r , rive exhibitions in New Zealand, lie will either proceed at once to Europe, or cablo for mechanics and machmcs.