AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1931, Page 6

AVIATION

PLANES CRASH

COLLISION IN PAGEANT.

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MASTERTON, March 15

During the official North Island Air Pageant at Master ton on Saturday, two planes participating in the ‘'Herald” Cup race crashed, after touching when travelling about 100 miles per hour at a. height of 200 feet. The planes were piloted by B. AY. Boys (Hawkes Bay) and P. C. Lewis (Auckland). Both pilots had a remarkable escape from injury. One machine was extensively damaged, landing upside down after striking a fence, but the other was not badly damaged.

SYDNEY CRASH

NOTED AIRMAN KILLED

SYDNEY, March .15. During its flight over the city this morning, when heavy rain made the visibility bad, a plane crossing Vauclufia Heights, struck a flagstaff and tore off one of its wings. Captain Jolly, a well known aviator, who was a papsenger, was killed. The pilot, Robertson, sustained a fractured skull. FURTHER PAR TIC CL ARS (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Mar. 10. It- ip Reginald Robinson not Robertson who was injured in th e Yauelusa plane crash. He is in a critical condition. Osmond Jolly, aged forty, was with De Garis the first local business man to realise, ten years ago, the possibility of the aeroplane in practical commerce. He had flown from Tamworth, but- when crossing the Harbour in blinding rain, a squall enveloped the plane. Pilot Robinson tried to get under the clouds and hit a Hag pole steel joint and crashed close u> the waters edge. A FAST FLIGHT. HONGKONG, March 11. Two French aviators, Bur tin and Moenclic, have arrived here eleven days after starting from France on an ! attempt to break the record to Japan.