Nga Taonga Sound Archives: First flights over Cook Strait

Photo: Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

Yesterday saw the 100th anniversary of the first ever flight across Cook Strait.  

It was marked by a recreation of that flight, which was from Christchurch to Trentham in the Hutt Valley, on the 25th August 1920.  

In today’s visit to the Sound Archives of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision Sarah Johnston will play us recordings of that and other historic Cook Strait crossings.

Euan Dickson, C. Hewlett and J. Moore in front of the Avro bi-plane after the first flight across Cook Strait in 1920 [courtesy Air Force Museum of New Zealand]

Evening Post newspaper headlines, 25 August 1920 [courtesy Papers Past]

Philip Kenning Fowler’s 1916 aviator’s certificate [courtesy Manawatū Heritage]