Story: Aviation All images & media From page 1 – The beginnings of aviation Commemorating New Zealand’s first flight The Manurewa Blériot monoplane Sockburn airbase From page 2 – Early flying feats ‘Wizard’ Stone’s flight The first Boeing seaplane Crossing Cook Strait Flying the length of the country From page 3 – An aviation industry Early airmail flight A fatal accident The de Havilland Moth From page 4 – Crossing the Tasman Waiting in vain Crew of the Southern Cross Jean Batten From page 5 – The main trunk route East Coast Airways advertisement Union Airways aircraft Flying in the 1930s Passenger numbers, 1937–1949 From page 6 – International destinations Short S30 aircraft TEAL flying boat The luxury of flying boats Airline meals From page 7 – Government intervention National Airways Corporation aircraft NAC advertisement, 1950s NAC in the 1950s (1st of 2) Passenger numbers (2nd of 2) From page 8 – Onward and upward: 1940s to 1960s Popular NAC aircraft The Vickers Viscount Air hostesses Aircraft used on the main trunk route From page 9 – Changing times: 1960s and 1970s Whenuapai airport Aircraft of the late 1970s From page 10 – Public and private ownership Licensing air services SPANZ advertisement The expansion of aviation Affordability of flying, 1947–1990 Ansett New Zealand From page 11 – Air travel in the 2000s Taking New Zealand to the world Landing at Wellington Air safety Rescue helicopter
