CAPTAIN EDWIN MUSICK’S DEATH, along with his crew, in the fiery crash of the Samoan Clipper on 10 January 1938 south of Pago Pago had a profound impact in New Zealand.
WHAT WAS PROBABLY the first genuine British post-war four-engined landplane transport to visit New Zealand would be the Handley Page C.1 Hastings TG503 which landed at Whenuapai on 25 April 1948 after a...
THE BREWSTER F2A was designed by R. D. MacCart and D. T. Brown of the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, Long Island, New York to a United States Navy specification drawn up in 1935 for a carrier-based,...
AUCKLAND’S WAITEMATA HARBOUR has witnessed some remarkable gatherings but few, even today, rival the events of 30 March 1937, when Captain Edwin C. Musick and his crew landed their Pan American Airways...