All Ready for the Tasman Flight?
Keen Interest in Kingsford Smith’s Attempt All Stations on the Air
RA0P10 is again, in the near future, to demonstrate its value in the conquest of sea and air. As the time draws near for the projected flight across the Tasman Sea by Kingsford Smith and his crew in "The Southern Cross," the interest of listeners centres on the part radio is to play.Radio "beacons" in Europe and America act as lighthouses in directing the course of air-pilots, who are also able to receive radio reports as to weather conditions ahead of them. Radio may be trigty-termed the handmaiden of aviatidn. {PH projected flight across Tasman "Sea promises to sweep New ZeaJand. with unprecedented enthusiasm in broadcast listening. For the first time the four high-power broadcast stations are in all probability to be on the air
throughout the night. The Radio Broadeasting Company of New Zealand, with charac.eristic enterprise, proposes to report the flight from Australia to New Zealand from start to finish, The short-wave morse messages from the "Southern Cross" are to be picked up by the various New Zealand stations, and read out in plain Hnglish so that all listeners will be able to understand the messages without knowledge of morse. No doubt occasionally the actual transmission from the "Southern Cross" will be put on ths air to enable listeners to hear how the actual movse from the airplane sounds. Through this enterprise all
listeners in New Zealand will be able to hear the progress of the great adventure from start to finish. Those who operate receiving sets capable of bringing in the Sydney stations will have much to listen to at the aerodrome from which the flight is to commence. There will be much tc describe, and, possibly, Kingsford Smith’ and his comrades will speak an au revoir message to Australia and New Zealand. The hop-off is to commence late at night. "PHE chances of the flight being successfully accomplished appear greatly in favour of the airmen, The "Southern Cross" has three engines, au enormous fuel supply, first-class radio
sending and receiving equipment, and the pilots, Captain Kingsford Smith and Flight-Lieutenant Ulm, have proved themselves, in their flight across the Pacific, masters of the air. They have lately accomplished a 2000 miles’ trial jaunt from Melbourne to Perth, in a non-ston flight, about 600 miles further than their proposed flight from Sydney to New Zealand. New Zealanders "ve a special interest in the projected trans-Tasman flight in view of the fact that the important duties of wireless operator for the "hop" have been entrusted to Mr. T. WH. McWilliams, a New Zealander. The navigator will be Mr. Litchfield. ISTENERS throughout New Zealand will find it worth while to have their radic broadcast receiving equipment in first-class condition for the big event. This will be the, greatest broadcast happening in the radic annals of New Zealand up to that date.
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Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 6, 24 August 1928, Page 3
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488All Ready for the Tasman Flight? Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 6, 24 August 1928, Page 3
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