Another Plane In Papua
pp. 65-66 · Read in the full issue
From Our Owfb Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, Jan. 14.
ANEW addition to Port Moresby’s growing air fleet is a Dolphin Doug las amphibian, which landed at the aerodrome here on January 10, having flown in two stages from Brisbane. The plane is powered with two engines, each of 450 horse power, and has a working range of 1,000 miles. Her crew includes Messrs. F. E. Secor (pilot), J. R. Lund (assistant), and M. Reynolds (photo grapher) .
This is the second aircraft brought here by the Fairchild-K.N.I.L.M. organ isation, which is under contract to make an aerial survey of the oil-prospecting areas held by Island Exploration Co.
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M. Satragne, an engineer in the Public Works Department of New Caledonia, left Noumea by the last “Commissaire Ramel”, for Prance.
Mr. W. V. Bott, manager of the British Phosphate Commission’s workings at Nauru Island, arrived in Auckland on February 2 by the “Trienza”.