Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1920 — Surveying by Airplane. [ARTICLE]

Surveying by Airplane.

The airplane In Tasmania has been used to survey a route for the erection of a transmission line capable of delivering 10,000 horsepower, of electric current from the Great Lake works to Launceston, a--distance of 80 miles. No man had over been through Gils part of the country. The airplane, which carried an engineer of the government hydroelectric department, traveled 180 nflles, and flew over wild mountain peaks, rising to an altitude of 6,000 feet, over very heavily timbered country, numerous lakes, lagoons and rivers. Information, which in the ordinary way would have taken, ■erne months to obtain, owing to the tprtriiiainy nature of the country, was f i«mml in . a confle of hours.