AIR MAIL DANGERS
Fliers Must Make Tfips in Any* Weather
BROADBENT'S FEARS (Reoeived 6, 8.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 5. The well-known airman, Mr H- F. Broadbenf, has resigned his position as air mail pilot owing to his objection to the principlfe of expecting the pilot to "get through" no matter what the conditions. He declared: "The get-throngh-despite-the-weather epirit and competition with surface transport are making airline flying too hazardous." He thoroughly endorsed Imperial Airways' slogan: "When the weather is bad we sit down," and added that some years would elapse before aviation could hope to achieve with safety the regularity of train and boat schedules.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 67, 6 April 1937, Page 5
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105AIR MAIL DANGERS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 67, 6 April 1937, Page 5
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