Anglicans Talk Reunion With Rome

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 256, 19 January 1928, Page 1

Anglicans Talk Reunion With Rome

NEXT TASMAN TRY

MOODY OUTLINES PLANS PLANE CLOSELY TESTED WIFE NOT TO GO WITH HIM By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 10.35 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. Captain P. Moody now states that Mrs. Moody will not accompany him on the proposed Tasman flight. He will take as wireless operator Mr. Osmond Jolly. Mrs. Moody is a niece of Sir Thomas Mackenzie. Captain Moody says he proposes to fly the Mascot to New Plymouth, which is about 300 miles shorter than Lieutenant Moncrieff’s and Captain Hood’s route, being about 1,150 land miles. He believes it can be covered in about 12 hours. Before embarking on the Tasman flight, it is the intention of the airmen to undertake test flights for. at least 30 or 40 hours over land, including one endurance flight of about 17 hours, which is longer than it takes to reach New Zealand. The machine will have a cruising radius of 2,200 miles, at an average speed of 100 miles an hour. It will carry three compasses and a reliable wireless transmitter. The time of the flight will be arranged so as to arrive in New Zealand 'in the early afternoon. —A. and N.Z.

OFFICIAL ATTITUDE AMPHIBIAN NECESSARY MELBOURNE, Wednesday. The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Bruce, states that although the Government has had no official notification of the proposed new flight from Sydney to New Zealand by Captain Moody, the Federal Government is strongly opposed to long flights across the water unless an amphibian or seaplane with proper equipment for sea flying is used. Mr. Bruce added that the flight proposed at first by Captain Moody in a monoplane without floats would be far too hazardous. The Government did not approve of any long-distance flights that were not first approved by the Government’s technical experts and considered by them to have a reasonable chance of success. There was a regulation prohibiting flying in land machines more than 50 miles out to sea, unless they were fitted with floats and carried proper and necessary equipment to give the airmen a chance if forced down in the sea.— A. and N.Z. MR. BAILEY’S PLAN DE HAVILLAND PLANE MELBOURNE, Wed. Referring to a report cabled from New Zealand that Mr. P. Bailey, of Hamilton, proposed to make a flight from Australia, and was in negotiation with Major de Havilland, the latter said he never heard of Mr. Bailey, and never heard of the proposal to use a de Havilland machine on such a flight. —A. and N.Z. Mr. Bailey explains that he wrote a letter to Major de Havilland only a few days ago, and his letter will not have reached Australia yet. His offer to make the flight is made in good faith, and depends largely on whether Major de Havilland could equip him with a suitable machine.