RlOl ENQUIRY
(Official Wireless). \ i LONDON, November 5
Higgins recalled the writing of minutes last year in reply to Lord Thomson, who was annoyed because the airship was put in to shed owing to the warning of a severe, gale. Higgins therein pointed out an alternative might have been a flight to avoid the gale, which Richmond 1 though an unjustifable risk as an endurance flight had not yet been carried out.
Lord Thomson in later minutes said
—“I consider the right policy is to go on steadily with progressive experiment enabling the achievement of our extensive programme. I do not anticipate further difficulties from weather if a. slow sure policy is followed out.”
Flight Lieutenant Moore, who assisted in the investigations, gave evidence as an official of an aerodrome, who Is familiar with judging altitudes. He declared the airship passed over before the crash at a height of 030 feet.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19301106.2.40
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1930, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
151R101 ENQUIRY Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1930, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in