'PLANE SMASHED
PILOT ESCAPES INQUIRY. AUCKLAND, July 14. When taking off for a trial flight near ;!§Vuiuku yesterday afternoon a monoplane, constructed by Messrs Dunlop; and G. Erikson, of Waiuku, crasher! into a wire fence at a speed of 50 miles an hour, and was partially /wrecked.
Tlie?fence posts were broken and the laeroplnae came to rest With its side ''crumpled, but the pilot, W. T. Stanr?ouj || New Plymouth, stepped from 7 the jcMkpit unhurt,.- r ., . Svl Mrlfetanton, a- former pupil of the j'kuckf§id Aero Club, had a successful “Jrialf f|ght in the aeroplane oh MonHay,! ’after which -some .adjustments to the lubrication system were carried out the direction of the buildeis, Dunlop and Erikson.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1932, Page 6
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