MOTH STRIKES FENCE
MR. D. MILL’S MISHAP NEW WING TO BE FITTED Press Association NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday. One wing of. Mr. Douglas Mill’s Moth plane was damaged when it landed at Bell Block airdrome this afternoon, li is understod the machine will not be flown again till a new lower wing arrives from Melbourne. On his arrival from. Auckland, en route to Hastings, Mr. Mill taxied too far across the grounds and struck a gorse hedge with one wing. The other swung round and. struck a fence post. Neither Mr. Mill nor his mechanic, Mr. J. Smitli,’ was injiired. The machine was wheeled a mile down the road and housed in a shed. . .
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 543, 21 December 1928, Page 1
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