MARLBOROUGH AIR PAGEANT.
BIG FORMATION FLIGHT. (FBiaa USOCIAWO* TXUQBAX.) BLENHEIM, March 8. The, Marlborough Aero (Hub's third nnual pageant was held atWoodbourne >dl Saturday, in glorious weather. There res, ai big attendance. , The proceedings opened with the big* 'est formation flight yet seen in the )crminion, two formations of thirteen ,nd ten machine* respectively sweepag across the sky at a low elevation, rhile half a dozen faster machines ircled round them. Competition in the various events re,B exceptionally keen,' pilots competag from all. parts of New Zealand, from, kuckland in the nqrth, to Dunedin in he south, while the only club not represented as a elufc, was Auckland. ; Results:— / Zero Honr Onp Flight. Lieutenant Burrell (Wigram) .. 1 - < A. Pilots' Landing. (Jackson Cup.) 1 A. V. Jury (Wairarapa) .. 1 D. E. Grigg (Canterbury) .. 2 McLeod (Wairarapa) .. 3 B. Pilots' Landing. (Furness Rose Bowt) Squadron-Leader M. C. McGregor (Christchurch) .. .. 1 Flying-Officer I. H. N. Keith > (New Plymouth) .. 2 Squadron-Leader Findlay (Wigram) . - .. 3 All-Transport Race. (Licensed Victuallers' Cup.) Flight-Lieutenant Buckley (Wigram) . ... _• • 1 Squadron-Leader Findlay (Wigram) ..2 Bombing Target. X (A Pilots.) . \ Isaacs, (New Plymouth) '..1 B. 0. Grigg (Marlborough) .» '2 New Zealand Air Onp. I Kr ß t Heat: Flying-Officer Olsen i (Otago) 1, Captain Bolt (Otago)' 2. ! Second Heat: Flight-Lieutenant BuckI ley (Wigram.) 1, Squadron-Leader Findlay (Wigram)' '2/ „ Final:. , Squadron-Leader Findlay .. 1 I Flight-Lieuten ant Buckley . - 2 i Captain Bolt - .. 3 r The machine piloted >by Lieutenant Buckley was .the one which, figured in a : re tent accident in which the .Director of Air Services, Wing-Commander B.' Giant Dalton was involved, in Canterbury. It' was, described - then as t ' '! ' ,1 ' " "
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20181, 9 March 1931, Page 7
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