AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1930, Page 5

AVIATION

A CLOSE SHAVE FOR COL.

LINDBERGH.

[United Press Association--By Electric Telegraph—Copyrght.]

~v NEW YORK,. Feb. 3. A message from Sandberg, California,

states that according to latest reports, ! Lindbergh escaped from the smash of \ a glider which he was testing on the / mountains in that neighbourhood. On- ■ lookers immediately despatched runners, who reported the Colonel had pot been injured in, the -crash. An

aeroplane had towed the glider from

the hillside and released it. in the face ; of . high winds. The. “aileron” was sebn to fa 11,., after . which the. glider crashed.. ,•

V AIRMAN CRASHES

LONDON, Feb. '4

AThe “Exchange’s’ Naples correspondent states Singh on 27th January crashed near Paola and was hospitalled slightly injured. The machine was wrecked.

ALTITUDE RECORD., '

FOR NEW ZEALAND.

‘ BLENHEIM, Feb. 5. ’ WJiat'is believed to be an altitude record for New Zealand was achieved yesterday afternoon by Miss P. Benliett, one of the Marlborough Aero ’Cluib’s pilots. In a climb' over two

she reached 19,000 feet. A/ J' E. Clbustori, who went up in another Moth at the 'same time could not get 'beyond 13:500 feet though he had ( *' previously been 'up to 16,000.' Miss ' : v Bennett is" very light and her mach,v| ine was in special trim, factors which hvoiild- assist her in breaking through ■' ’ 'the “ceiling.”