WING TIPS TOUCH
PLANES IN CLOUDS MISHAP AT WIG RAM MACHINES LAND SAFELY (F<*r Fross Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The wing tips of two Vickers-Vilric-'beesie aeroplanes from Wigram aerodrome wore slightly damaged when ihc machines touched while Hying in die clouds above Rice.art on to-day. The machines were engaged in .formation flying when they touched. The pilots quickly regained equilibrium and. although the aileron on one machine was damaged, both aeroplanes were landed without mishap. Tiie machines will in ail probability be back in the air to-morrow. The officer commanding at Wigram, Wing-Commander Hodgson said that similar mishaps, although uncommon, had occurred before and then also the damage was slight and the machines were successfully landed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 24 October 1939, Page 6
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116WING TIPS TOUCH Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 24 October 1939, Page 6
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