STUNTING AIRMEN
SUCCESSFUL PAGEANT AT HASTINGS LARGE ATTENDANCE Press Association HASTINGS. To-day. The Hawke’s Bay Aero Club’s pageant at Hastings on Saturday attracted 10.000 spectators. Eight airplanes took part. Two airmen. Major K Caldwell, of Auckland, and Captain Blomfield. did not reach tlie pageant from Hastings until 4 o'clock on account of bad weather. The big contest of the day was the Keiv Zealand light plane blue ribbon race of 25 miles, for a cup presented bv Mrs W. G. Stead. This resulted Captain' White (H.B. Aero Club Moth) 1 ' Major K. Caldwell (Auckland Aero Club Moth) 2. Pilot J. Smith (Air Survey and Transport Co. Moth) 3. Other results were — . Bombing Exhibition: Captain Waite 1. Captain Chandler (Marlborough Aero Club Motli) 2. Pilot Smith - All-Transport Race: Captain J. F Fipdiiv (V.z.A.F. Moth), l: Captain JC Mercer (N.Z.A.F. Moth), 2. . iff,. 1 'captains ijissell and Mercer save a 10-minute stunting exhibition. i
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19290429.2.6
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 649, 29 April 1929, Page 1
Word Count
152STUNTING AIRMEN Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 649, 29 April 1929, Page 1
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). 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