TRANS-TASMAN FLIGHT

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 52, 13 July 1928, Page 4

TRANS-TASMAN FLIGHT

FULL FACILITIES TO BE GIVEN OLLOWING up the information given last week regarding the New Zeal: 1 Broadeasting Company’s preperedness to co-operate to the fullest extent with Captain Kingsford-Smith in the flight of the Southern Cross across the Tasman by putting any or all of its stations on the air fer purposes of guidance, the following letter has been received from Colonel Brinsmead, Controller of Civil Aviation in Australia :- In answer to the comapny's cablegram offering its assistance, the following letter has been received from Colonel Brinsmead, Controller of Civil Aviation in Australia: "I desire to ac-knowl-cge with thanks your cablegram of June 19 offering all possible co-operation from any or all of your four broadeasting stations with a view to facilitating any Tasman flight that may be attempted in the near future. Your very kind offer has been repeated to.Mr. Ulm, who is now in Sydney, with a request that he should communicate with you in the event of it being possible to undertake the flight to New Zealand." The stations in New Zealand owned by the Broadcasting Company will be on the air throughout the full course of the flight, when it takes place. The Morse messages will be picked up and translated for the benefit of ordinary listeners, and on the landing of the aeroplane, if such takes place at any of the four main centres, a special description of the sce. es of landing will be broadcast. Interest in this flight will certainly be intense, and listeners may rest assured that. no effort will be spared by the company to give the: pest possible service in connection with