George Hood and John Moncrieff’s flight was a ‘gallant if somewhat ill-organised attempt to be the first to fly the Tasman from Australia to New Zealand’
Australians Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm, in their Southern Cross monoplane, landed at Wigram, Christchurch, 14 hours 25 minutes after leaving Sydney. More than 30,000 people thronged to greet them.
Australian Guy Menzies' flight from Sydney ended in some embarrassment when he crash-landed his Avro Avian biplane in a swamp at Harihari on the West Coast.
