TASMAN FLIGHT

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1933, Page 4

TASMAN FLIGHT

MR ULM’S PROJECT

START ON FRIDAY.

(Per Press Assoriation — Copyright.)

WELLINGTON, November 21

“If Mr C. P. Ulm makes up his mind to ! leave on the Tasman hop on Friday, as 6©ems likely at present, the weather will have to be fairly bad to step him. He is not going to take any unreasonable risks, but his plane is good and he will not have to 'wait for jfine weather all the way,” said Mr Claude Smythe, Ulm’s manager, on arrival to-day from Sydney on the Wanganella. He will immediately set, about inspecting possible landing grounds in 'both Islands ■and "will make other 1 necessary arrangements for the coming of the “Faith in Australia.” He would make no definite statement to-day as to any of the aerodrome*, to 'be used. The last linfor-j mation he had before he left Syd- j hey, he said, was that the take-off would be between 2 .and 3 a.m. on] 'Friday morning, if there were reasonable weather on the day. It would be .about a twelve hours’ flight, but, In case of delay, all ground preparations for a night landing would be made. He was still indefinite .about the passengers on the plane. The relief pilot would be “Scotty” Al’en, and Bob Boulton would he the Wirelens Operator, -but apart from these, he did not knoy who would come over. There was comfortable room for .six persons in the plane, and Ulm had had a large number of applications for seats.

The plane would carry courtesy letters from the Ministers of the Federal and .State to New Zealand Ministers, >and also A©”-' Club mail. Ulm’s tour through the count.rv would take five or six weeks but where he would go would have to depend on the suitability of the grounds for so large \ machine.