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FLYING BOATS

FOR TASMAN SERVICE. FLIGHT-LIEUTENANT ULM’S PREDICTION. The Sydney correspondent of the New Zealand Herald says that Flight-Lieutenant Ulm, Captain Kingston! Smith’s comrade and righthand man, has visions of a .fleet of aircraft in the near future between Australia and New Zealand, He says he is convinced that a Syd-ney-Auckland air service with three four and five-engined flying boats or amphibians, of a carrying- capacity of about two tons each, conveying passengers, freights and mails, is a practicable commercial proposition. Flight-Lieutenant Ulm says that with the right type of machine there is no question of the practicability of a regular air service between Australia and New Zealand, taking about 10 to 18 hours as against the four and five days occupied by steamers. He added: “We propose to do our Zealand flig'ht and will then be in a position to discuss more fully the commercial service as being an eminently practicable proposition. We have not yet fixed the date of our flight, winch will be purely an experimental one. It will not in any way be a publicity or merely spectacular stunt; Kingston! Smith and I believe that the flight to New Zealand will be a further demonstration to the two countries and to the public that properly organised flying is as safe as, and more speedy than ordinary transport.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3814, 5 July 1928, Page 4

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FLYING BOATS Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3814, 5 July 1928, Page 4

FLYING BOATS Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3814, 5 July 1928, Page 4

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