AVIATION
FRENCH Alll PAGEANT.
ARRANGEMENTS GO AWRY
(United Press Association—By ElectricTelegraph—Copyright). PARIS, May 23. A quaint contretemps destroyed the versimilitude of an air pageant at V-ftrvVnnes, which was arranged to stimulate interest in aviation, and to which hundreds of thousands of spectators were attracted It was announced, after a realistic display by the aviators, that they would bomb a factory town, which had been specially constructed As a fact, no bombs were used. It was arranged that the aeroplanes were to circle over tlie place at a low altitude when, simultaneously, the town should collapse on hinges amid artificial smoke. The building thus would he available for later performances. Unfortunately, owing to a misunderstanding between the air and grbund s'tafiV, the aeroplanes "wore miles away when the town collapsed, and the display ended in general laughter.
A HUMAN MISSING. ON JOURNEY TO MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, May 24. .McKay (President of the Victorian Aero Club) and a member of the special Air Committee which has been taking evidence in Sydney, .and wh left for Melbourne in a Gypsy Moth, lias not arrived. There is no indication of his whereabouts.
It is thought he was forced down by had' weather.
ZEPPELIN DEPARTS. LONDON, May 23. A message stall's the Graf Zeppelin has departed for Frederichshaven.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1929, Page 5
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