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WORLD FLIGHT. FURTHER DETAILS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). WASHINGTON, April 30. Regarding the round the world flight. Captain Lyon has announced that ho and Hulse will he accompanied by Captain Lancaster and by SquadronLeader Ivingsford Smith. • They are. to. -fly in) a, tri-motored plane,; now under construction in California, and about- seventy per cent, completed. The plane will leave Pasadena (California) and. will fly to “New York, thence going to London, alter which, with several intervening, stops, it.goes to Yokohama in Japan.'and thence to Guam, to Honolulu, and finally back to California. ANOTHER SEAPLANE BASE. NAP 1 ER, April 29. Speaking to a deputation of aero enthusiasts at Napier this morning, the Hon. Air Wilfprd, Minister for Defence, indicated that three seaplanes. Ordered by the Government, would he arrived shortly, and he said that the Government was looking for another seaplane base beside Hobsonville. : Referring to aero club pageants, Air Wiliford criticised the arrangements for handling the crowd at the Hawke’s Bay Club pageant on Saturday, and said that clubs must realise that in future crowds must ho roped hick and kept hack from the track of landing ’planes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1929, Page 6
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