AVIATION
REMARKABLE PLIGHT.
v'■ (Official Wireless.) ;;Rugb\V August 14 - • • A' reiharkable flight from Marchester to London was made, to-day by a Haipey Tage-Napier ."air Jiiier,, .flying, on tfefe Imperial airways service., the journey of 200 miles being covered in an a-ctiial'flying time of only 80 minutesj 'an average speed of approximately lid- miles an hour. ; R.lOO’s PROGRESS. VANCOUVER, August 15. A message from R.IOO states that at midnight on Thursday, she- I ,had coyered nearly half of the distance between St. Hubert and Cardington. v HALF WAY OVER. LONDON, August 15. Air ship RIOO wirelessed that she had passed- the halfway mark at four this morning. She- has been flying through rain--iince midnight. AIRMAN KILLED. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) • * ft ''•* S CAIRO, August 10. * Officer Erie'- Wmgsford was killed a" single seater fighter crashed * fit- Abustieir. This is the forty-secoind Air Force death, and T twenty-seventh fatal crash in 1930.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1930, Page 5
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