AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1930, Page 6

AVIATION

kingsford smith.

FORCED DOWN IN SMALL PLANE

United Press Association— By Electric aph—Copyright) ; i : ; j '. hiU All. '• . ■'• v/;: ■ < - SAX FRANCISCO, i July. 15. Wing-Commander Kings lord 'Smith and Navigator Saul were uninjured when'a small. Biplane, in which they were flying herd?' frbttr'-S&ntn.- M&ria, was forced down from a height of 3700 feet by shfift. Kings! o'rd ShjSffcl? bincfedi safely in a farmers field. .... , ' x-iAtrii sti SC*' zr-'*' : ••; 1 € ;MgfppgEft^iGi^. r " (Received this ua.v at 10 .'36 a.'feVV" ' Kings ford Smith has been approached ' bv;'an Eastern. ..company, ....which, constructing ait' experimental,;.p]aney regarding an which will notv.jt'ake place before .June next. 1 Jj % Kingsford?s brother. 11. 11. K. Smith,, said on Wednesday that the plane would be either three or four-motored, with a cruising-radius of six thousand; miles. i pi

KingsforcL Smifli leaves on route to the East on Wednesday. He hopes to leave London >on August loth, in a small English plane, on a projected ten-day, six r stop flight to Sydney. RIUVATT WELLINGTON PLANE. • ! ; LiNGTON, July 15. f • WtdlWtmfsi/lirst private aeroplane owi ,r " Will beld*, Berryman, who-.has agreed i to purchase Miss Aroha Cliffords Avro-Avjdu. The machine- <IS at present at Rongotni, and to-mor-row Miss Clifford will fly it for the last time before, she hands it over to Mr Berryman!? The new oivuer Recently qualijie ; <||;|for his A. license. The machine,: (which is registered as ZK —A AC is powered by, a Cirrus engine. It was) brought to Now Zealand, by Flight Light.' K. H. J. Hall, of Hororata, to replace an Avian which had been crashed. Miss Clifford Purchased it from, him about the middle of February lasi;