AVIATION
Do. X BACK AT BERLIN,
(United Presa Association —By Electric
Telegraph.—Uopynght.j
I|ONDON, May 24
The only passengers aboard the German flying boat, Do. X, when she left Calshot for Berlin, were Doctor Dorniejr, his daughter, and Mr Gordon England, the Chairman of the British Gliding Association. The Do. X reached Berlin this evening.
NEW USE FOR PLANES
RUGBY, May 24
An autogiro aeroplane is to be used for the controlling of the road traffic to and from Epsom Downs on Derby Day. From a point of vantage 2,000 feet up, observers will transmit to the police wireiless instruction for the direction of the traffic, together with information concerning the general position of the traffic on the roads leading to th e course.
THE MISSING JUNKER PLANE.
BATAVIA, May 25. The Government steamer “Flores” is still searching the sea beyond Timor foir the missing German Junker hydroplane with two Germans aboard.
AEROPLANE CRASH
/WAIRARAPA MACHINE DAMAGED
MASTERTON. May 25
The Wairarapa Aero Chib’s aeroplane, ZK—ABE, crashed at Woodville on Saturday afternoon. The pilot. Mf H. T. Parsons, was unhurt. Jhe engine apparently stalled when the pilot was about to make a landing on the Woodville racecourse, and the machine crashed from a height of about 100 feet into a paddock alongside the racecourse. The under-cai liage, P 1 peller and both wings of the plane suffered, but the machine was not seriously damaged. _ . Flying-Officer ,1. H. Buckeridgc, pilotinstructor to the club, and Mr J. H. Preston, ground engineer, proceeded to Woodville after the accident, and the aeroplane was dismantled and conveyed to Masterton by lorry in the evening. Repairs are ail ready under way'and it is anticipated that the aeroplane will be in the air again in about a weak f time.- •
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1932, Page 6
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