U.S. Businessmen Flying to Dominion
(Received March 31, at 8.0 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 31.
A Skymaster, in which seventeen American businessmen are making a world flight, will leave Sydney early to-morrow for Whenuapai, where she is due about mid-morning. The ’plane, which is called the “Atlas Sky Merchant,” left the United States in January 13, on a flight which will take it to twejity-seven countries. The purpose of the fortyfive thousand-mile flight is to. investigate business conditions. The Skymaster carries the newest type of ’plane-to-ground radio telephone, by means of which the businessmen intend to cany on conversations with prominent New Zealanders, while the 'plane is crossing the Tasman Sea. Commanding the aircraft ik Colonel E. E. Aldrin, who served in New Zealand with the United States Air Force during the war.
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Grey River Argus, 1 April 1948, Page 3
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