Word: tasman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will begin scheduled fortnightly service (mail & express only) between New Zealand and Hawaii just in time to save the franchise. Airmail time between the U. S. and the Antipodes will be four days. Steamships take 18. In six months Imperial Airways will fly 1,280 miles across the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, and when P. A. A. puts passenger planes on the Auckland run, passengers will be able to fly on regular schedules from New York to London via the Antipodes-a variation of the present possible route via Hong Kong...
...spent three days making surveys of Samoa, finally got away for the test leg of the trip, the 1,800-mi. hop to Auckland, New Zealand, where the new line will tie up with a service Imperial Airways is soon to start from Australia across the 1,360 mi. Tasman Sea. This week the Clipper starts back to Honolulu and thence to Manila. Other planes will take up the testing of the new route, which thorough Pan American will probably fly for at least six months before beginning scheduled four-day service to the fourth best U. S. customer...
...Martin's new China Clipper at hauling passengers, mail & express over such long routes as the California-Hawaii run (2,410-mi.) But the Sikorsky Clipper will continue to give able service in South American waters, is admirably adapted to the 1,250-mi. jump across the Tasman Sea contemplated by Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith's airline...
...flyer of Australia, Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith has long pestered Imperial Airways to extend their airlines across the dangerous Tasman Sea to New Zealand. Long refused because Great Britain has not succeeded in building any airplane good enough for the job, he last week finally pestered British Aircraft, Ltd. into buying the right to manufacture the famed U. S. Sikorsky Clipper 8-42. Because it well knows 8-42 is far outmoded by the new Martin Clipper, which has three times as much carrying power, United Aircraft Corp. was delighted to get some...
Last week, accompanied by a wireless operator, Sir Charles and "Bill" set out from Sydney in the famed old Southern Cross to fly the stormy Tasman Sea to Wellington, N. Z. Halfway across, the starboard propeller broke off, part of a motor fell into the sea. With the other two motors sputtering, the ship lost altitude rapidly. Sir Charles threw 14,000 lb. of freight overboard, then 34,000 pieces of Jubilee mail. When the Southern Cross continued falling, Sir Charles sent out an SOS, added: "Port motor gone now. . . . Afraid...