Covering The Big Air Race
ATERIAL for a series of preliminary programmes about the LondonChristchurch Air Race will be gathered by Arnold Wall, Talks Officer at 3YA, in a flight to England and back in the R.N.Z.A.F, Hastings which is New Zealand’s only entry in the race. This was announced as this issue of The Listener was going to press. Mr. Wall will also represent the NZBS in the aircraft during the race in October, The Hastings was due to leave Whenuapai on May 21 on an eight days’ flight to England by way of Brisbane, Darwin, Singapore, Ceylon, Karachi, Habbaniya (Iraq), Cyprus and Malta. After a short stay in England it will fly back over the route chosen for the race taking four days on the flight. Mr. Wall will take a tape recorder with him, and will gather both scripted and actuality material on the flights both. ways, and while in England. He hopes to meet officials of the Royal Aeronautical Club, which is organising the race from the British end, and Air Ministry officials, and he will visit firms which are constructing British aircraft entered for the race. (He also hopes to get material for Book Shop from the National Book League, in London. Mr. Wall will return to England in the Hastings a few weeks before the race, which will start about October 10. Those who read the interview with him in The Listener of May 15 will recall that he had a distinguished record in the R.A.F:, from which he retired in 1951, after 25 years’ service, with the rank of Group Captain, He was awarded the O.B.E. for his work during the
Berlin air lift. He has been with the NZBS for about two years. The Hastings will take about 27 members of the R.N.Z.A.F., including air crew and a grougd servicing party, to England on its survey flight, though only five air crew members will be on duty at any one time. Fifteen air crew members have been-chosen to fly the aircraft in the race, and a maintenance party of eight will service it at stopping points. The Hastings will be commanded by Wing Commander R. F. Watson, of Kumara, who has been Officer Commanding No. 41° Squadron, R.N.Z.A.F., since 1951.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 724, 29 May 1953, Page 15
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378Covering The Big Air Race New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 724, 29 May 1953, Page 15
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