AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 20133, 25 March 1929, Page 6

AVIATION

MOSP.’S FORCED LANDING PLAM'i NOT SERIOUSLY LAMAGED. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March _ 21’. The Vickers Company has received a cablegram from its agents to the effect that Flying-officer Moir’s forced landing was duo to engine trouble shortly I after .setting out on the projected 2,000-mile non-stop flight from Bengali. Slight damage was done to_ one 1 wing tip ' and to the nnder-earriage. Vickers telegraphed instructions to repair the damage forthwith, and it. is understood that aid will he lortheoming from the Royal Air Force Aerodrome in the vicinity.—Australian Press Association. MECHANIC KILLED. PREPARING AVAR PICTURE. NEW YORK, March 2d. At Los Angeles Philip Jones, a mechanic, was killed, hut Al Wilson, a noted stunt flyer, escaped death by leaping from a parachute when a bombing plane they were using for the filming of n war picture went into a tail spin. It was the final picture of a series- Motion picture cameras in the other planes photographed the fall. — Australian Press Association. KINGSFORD SMITH AND ULM. GRANT FROM NEW SOUTH WALES SYDNKA’, March 24. The Bavin Government lias paid over a cheque for £4,500 to Squadronleader Kingsford Smith and Flightlieutenant Ulm, representing the previous Government's guarantee to enable the Pacific, flight to be undertaken. .AL' Bavin pa id his Government’s contribution of £2.500 Inst November.