THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
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It may seem now a rather thankless task to criticise those who embarked on what was in it.s own way a really heroic enterprise. Hat it seems to ns that the chance ot success, small in imv case, was needlessly reduced by the inexperience ot those concerned. The aviators had very little time or opportunity to become lamilini \vi*h their machine, and their one lons (light in it from Melbourne to Sydney was wholly insufficient preparation for the ordeal over the Tasman Sea. Moreover, they could have had little if any experience in landing in darkness tinder such conditions as were anticipated at the close of the flight. Though they were without doubt skilful and courageous flyers, the testimony of experts seems to prove that only seaplanes can afford a reasonable prospect
of safety in a long ocean voyage, and the fact that they wore unable to send an intelligible message by wireless was another heavy handicap against them. These tilings must he said even now, for the sake of those, who no doubt, in suite of the risk of death, will essay sootier or later to achieve success where these gallant pioneers have failed. * —Auckland Star.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1928, Page 2
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