TASMAN FLIGHT

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1928, Page 3

TASMAN FLIGHT

THE STARTING DAY. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) SY DN FA', Jan. 5. Capt. Knight says the flight to New Zealand will not he started before Saturday at the earliest. It may he Sunday night. He expressed no fears regarding the ability of the machine to make the distance. It is not yet decided: who should make the flight. The member of the team to drop opt will not be decided till the afternoon before the flight. He stated the reason for landing nt Bongbong on Tuesday was to ascertain their position. They wore flying strictly by compass reckoning, in order to ascertain how the compass would behave on the journey across the Tasman. They took no notice of railway lines or other land marks. When they saw high mountains they thought it was the Blue Mountains, but later, found it to he ißowral. The only tiling that went wrong on the flight was the wireless

apparatus. The airmen express gratification, at Mr Bruce withdrawing the prohibition of the flight. They said. We realise that we are taking the flight at our own responsibility and without in any way involving either the Australian or New Zealand Governments.