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SKI PLANE ON TASMAN GLACIER, MOUNG COOK, N
· enter an aeroplane with wheels on the Hermitage os
and arrive upon skis on the unbroken snows at the SP Soft ANY
the Tasman Glacier is the privilege of every visitor to
Mount Cook National Park area. But it took years
dreaming, scheming and planning on the part of Hogy 6
Wigley and his staff to make this possible. His love of the
high country and his desire for more adequate resgues
facilities in the Alps tedm.this pioneer airman to explore the
technique of snowfield landings. With his staff the
eventually designed and perfected the world's first ski-
plane/landplane undercarriage. On its trial run in 1955
Harry Wigley and a companion landed an Auster with
retractable skis on the Tasman Glacier so successfully that,
as Harry put it, "it settled down as tactfully as a maiden
in a feather bed”. One of the first to congratulate him
was Sir Edmund Hillary then at the Hermitage making
plans to train the New Zealand Antarctic party there the
following winter.
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of news.
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20800 COLBY ROAD
Yesterday ał nat. Cook we took
SHAKER HEIGHTS, OHIO 44/22
Mee zessd thrilliquide we have ever lind, we
Took a sli pané, Cessua 185, to the the Tallist
rusuntain in te zedande iue flew throughtle
U.S.A
gap sluwn m Cornescrua o Tuaigh even taller
pipe. We lauded on the Tamian Glaciero
célculs walkeda suud. Our hearts Colourchrome Series
wie the
Love, X
PHOTOGRAPHY: GLADYS M. GOODALL.
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