FORCED LANDING
MILES HAWK PLANE
ENGINE CUTS OUT
(By Telegraph.) - (Special to the "Evening Post.")
BLENHEIM, This Day.
A training flight in the Marlborough Aero Club's Miles Hawk machine came to an unexpected end early yesterday when the engine cut out owing to magneto trouble near the Wairau Bar and the club's pilot-instructor (Mr. J. E. Price) was compelled to make a forced landing in a paddock at Dillon's Point. The landing was made perfectly and the plane was undamaged.
Mr. Price was engaged in giving Mr. S. R. Duncan, of Nelson, one of the club's pilots, instruction in blind flying as a preliminary to the test for a "B" licence which was to have been carried out by Flight-Lieutenant Buckeridge. The plane took off from the Blenheim Aerodrome shortly before 6 a.m., and when over the Wairau Bar at an altitude of 1500 feet the magneto cut out and it was necessary immediately to bring the machine down. Mr. Price took over the controls and succeeded in making an excellent landing in rather a bumpy and decidedly restricted space.
Repairs were carried out by the ground engineer (Mr. T. Martin) and later in the day the machine was flown back to the aerodrome.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 153, 2 December 1938, Page 18
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