PACIFIC AIR LINE.
EXPECTED BY SIX MONTHS. . ENGINEER’S OPINION. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 28. The belief that Pan-American Airways would start a regular service across the Pacific to New Zealand and Australia within the next six months was expressed by Mr G. Langille, American aeronautical engineer employed by the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, who arrived to-day from Sydney. For the past 12 months Mr Langille lias been in Australia assisting to train commercial air pilots and helping with the ground organisation of air services. “I do not think there is any chance of Auckland being left out of the route to be taken,” lie said. “The clippers will be down here at the end of the year and they will go on to Australia from New Zealand.”
The absolute necessity for having the ground organisation perfect for commercial flying was emphasised by Mr Langille. In Australia, he said, direction finding, radio beacons and other essential equipment were being established at Mascot, Essenden, Hobart, Darwin and other important aerodromes on the commercial flying routes. New Zealand and Australian flying conditions were very similar and such equipment, which could probably be installed at all New Zealand aerodromes for a total cost of about £250,000, would have to be used.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 178, 29 June 1937, Page 6
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