WED IN AN AIRPLANE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 202, 15 November 1927, Page 5

WED IN AN AIRPLANE

PART OF “AIR CIRCUS”

Plying at a height of I,oooft. above the head of a throng that lined the edge of the Teterboro air port, Miss Ina Harper, of 132 Grand Avenue, and Phillip Obach, of 47 Union Place, Ridgefield, N.J., a policeman, were married by the Rev. Allan Mac Neill, pastor of the Ridgefield Park Union Community Church. The aerial wedding was one of half a dozen features of the national airplane show and air circus conducted by the Hackensack Lodge of Elks to aid their Crippled Kiddies Fund. The bridal party, the minister and one attendant flew in a Curtiss plane piloted by Ive McKinney, while in another plane, piloted by Clyde E. Pangborn, were Miss Inez May Corbin, of 4uo West Thirtieth Street. New York the Bridesmaid, and George Obach, brother of the bridegroom, and Captain Frank Baird, formerly of the Indian Army. The flying field was covered in many places with several inches of water and though three pumps had been working continuously since the heavy rain on the previous Thursday night, flying conditions were far from ideal. As a result, the bridal party was compelled to take oft and land in mid-field, some distance away from the stand and the crowd. After the ceremony the couple were driven to the stand and presented to the spectators by Edward C. McClure, Exalted Ruler of the Hackensack Lodge No. 658 of the Elks. Mr. McClure then presented a chest of silver to them as a wedding gift from the lodge.