TASMAN FLIGHT

Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1933, Page 5

TASMAN FLIGHT

ULM’S PROJECT

ARRANGING N.Z. MAIL SERVICES

(Per Press Association—Copyright),

"WELLINGTON, November 24

Arrangements were completed to-day by tile Post and Telegraph Department lor Air C. P. UJm to carry a special air mail within New Zealand in the “Faith in Australia.”

The flight on December 5, will be a non-stop one from Auckland to Invercargill, and its purpose is to demonstrate the possibilities of the quick transit of largo quantities of mail. Special souvenir envelopes will he printed, and will be available iree.of charge from all of the main post offices from Monday next. Ordinary envelopes may he used, provided that they hear the inscription, “For transit by tile special flight” j and ordinary Air Mail stickers will be available at the post offices. The postage must b e paid by Air Mail stamps. Alail to he carried on this flight be posted at any post office in tlie Dominion. NEW PLYMOUTH IN READINESS.

RADIO ARRANGEMENTS MADE.

NEW PLYMOUTH, November 24,

All is ready at New Plymouth airport for Ulm in the “Faith of Australia,” but the day of hi s arrival is uncertain. A cable from Ulm late to-night said; “Awaiting weather.” It is regarded as certain to-night that the crossing will not he made! on Saturday. Arrangements have been made for two-way radio communication with the plane, and the aerodrome all the way. Precautions have been taken, should a night landing be necessary, but it is expected that the machine will arrive early in the afternoon.

The delay ha :S been caused by the advise of storms over the Tasman Sea, but it is pointed out that the machine has ample ppwer, and full capacity for a double crossing.

ULM LEAVES EARLY ON MONDAY

(Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, November 25. Ulm stated that the latest reports indicate that the weather is improving, and he now intends to leave Richmond at 2 o’clock on Alonday morning (4 a.m. N.Z. time), to fly to New Plymouth aerodrome. He expects the trip to take from twelve to fifteen hours. Provision hag’ been"Tirade' for ‘carrying 740 gollons of petrol. A transmitting and receiving wireless set. has been installed in the “Faith in Australia.”

OBJECT OF SMITHY’S VISIT,

SYDNEY, November 24.

Advice that Air Wilford Kings'ord Smith sailed from Sydney bv the Alcnowai was received by Air B. Sheil, Avaiation Officer of the Vacuum Oil Company, directly after he arrived at Aucland.

Mr Kingsford Smith’s visit jg for the purpose of investivating the possibility of forming a National Airways Company in New Zealand for the running of passenger services in the Dominion.

BELGIAN ORDER FOR BRITAIN LONDON, November 24. For the third 3'ear in succession and after a close investigation of aero engines made in many countries, the Belgian Government has placed a contract for twenty-four Rolls Royce Kestrel supercharged engines in Britain.

PLANES CRASH IN MID-AIR

LONDON, November 24

When two Royal Air Force planes Collided 6,000 feet over Essex, one landed undamaged, hut the other was put out of control, and crashed. The pilot, Flight-Lieutenant jumped and made a safe landing b3’ parachute.

CHINESE AMPHIBIAN WRECKED.

NINE PASSENGERS INJURED

(Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) CHANGHAI, November 24.

The worst disaster in civil aviation in China, though not attended by fatalities, occurred when a huge Sikorsky amphibian, canyng two pilots and seven passengers, crashed on the heights of Chusan Island, in Hang Chow Bay in dense fog. Making its inaugural flight, the passenger machine, after striking the rock-bound coast, somersaulted three times, ending in a mass of twisted wreckage, from which the occupants, badly injured, were extricated. I’lie Countess of Carlisle, niece of the British. Minister, Sir Miles W. Lampson, had both ankles broken.

Mr Reynolds, American consul at Foo Chow was badly injured.