MISHAP TO AUTOGIRO
ROTOR VANE BROKEN (By Telegraph—Press Association) INVERCARGILL, 17th January. Owing to the mishap which occurred at the Invercargill Aerodrome oil Thursday afternoon, the autogiro machine, which was piloted from phvistcliurch by R. Matheson, will be out of commission temporarily, and it will be impossible to undertake any further flights until spare parts are procured. The accident occurred wjiile the ’plane was on the ground, and resulted in one of the rotor vanes being broken through striking the propeller. The pilot states that it could not have occurred while the autogiro was in. flight, and was caused by a sudden jolt while the machine was moving along the ground.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19310119.2.39
Bibliographic details
Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 19 January 1931, Page 4
Word Count
111MISHAP TO AUTOGIRO Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 19 January 1931, Page 4
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Nelson Evening Mail. 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 Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in