AVIATION.
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Mann 1-. Kinkend, one of the most famous high-speed pilots of the It.A.K. crashed at Sul la nt at a height of tour hundred feet. The machine was going at a terrific pace when it nose-dived vertically like a -shell from a gun. "lien it struck the water a Brent doumn spouted up. There was a faint sound trow the engine for a second or two and in less than half a minute the machine and the pilot had disappeared without n trace. The Admiralty high-speed boats were on the scene within a minute hut found nothing but swirling water. . . Kinkead had been waiting at Clashot for a week for an opportunity to wrest the record from Italy. ll *‘ l _ machine was never in the air until Sunday when a trial was most successf, 1 ful To-day was the second test aftei y waiting all the morning while a snowstorm raged. Towards the afternoon the sky cleared and conditions became favourable. _____
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1928, Page 3
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