CROSSING COOK STRAIT
AN EXPERT’S ADVICE
WELLINGTON, Nov. 18
“If 1 were crossing Cook Strait,” said Wing-Commander Grant-Dalton, in his address at the Wellington Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Friday, “I would for safety’s sake, cross it at a. height of (5000 to 8000 feet. One would he. across in a quarter of an hour, and, even if the engine cut-off Imlf-way across at 0990 to 8(X)0 feet, one could easily get down to land, and at 10,090 feet it would be surer still.” And it was nicer to lie aloft, well aloft, because it was “bumpier” down below. But by climbing one could get out of tin 3 “bumps,” which gave one very much the same sensation as the sinking- feeling at the pit of -the stomach that one experienced when a lift suddenly seemed to drop from under one’s feet. The Imperial Airways ’planes used to fly at 500 feet across the English Channel, hut the people hated it, because the “bumps” made them seasick. His motto, therefore, was “Keep well up; the higher the better.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1929, Page 2
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