EDITORIAL NOTES.

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 48, 15 June 1928, Page 4

EDITORIAL NOTES.

THROUGH the wonderful flight of the Southern Cross aeroplane from San Francisco to Honolulu, Suva, and Brisbane both aviation and radio have received a tremendous and spectacular advertisement. The adventure achieved success because of its thorough equipment and organisation, backed by splendid personnel. The highest praise is due to the gallant aviators, individually and collectively, and will be given ungrudgingly, but to our mind the greatest wonder attaching to the flight must be accorded the apparatus contributed by. the various sciences to make the flight possible. In this field radio has made notable contributions-in fact, it is certain that without radio the feat could not have been performed. With the perfection of contact maintained with ship and shore throughout the flight the navigation never was at fault. It is inevitable that contrast will he drawn between the success achieved by this splendidly-equipped machine and the tragedy of the Hood-Moncrieff flight of January last. If, as seems likely, the Southern Cross comes to New Zealand as a preliminary to that world flight on which Kingsford Smith is said to have set his heart, a royal pai eee will be given- with a tribute, too, to those who tried-an.l ailed.