SYDNEY-PERTH AIR RACE
HEATH’S BIG AIRPLANE CRASHES MILLER IN THE LEAD ! Reed. 10 a.m. SYDNEY’. Today. In the Sydney-Perth air race Heath’s i machine lost a wheel when he was | attempting to land between Cook and i Forrest in desert country near the j Western Australian border, and both j propellers were broken, also the other wheel. | All the occupants, including a rej presentative of the “Sydney Morning Herald,” were severely shaken. The machine now is out of the contest, although it was practically leading. Another machine was forced down owing to engine trouble. It was Lee Murray’s Gipsy Moth. This also is out of the contest. A report from Forrest. Western Australia, states that the leaders in the air race are Miller, De Havilland. Pratt, and Cunningham. It is stated that Heath’s big plane touched the ground when it was flying at 140 miles an hour. Lee Murray remedied his defect and reached the Forrest airdrome.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 785, 4 October 1929, Page 9
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157SYDNEY-PERTH AIR RACE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 785, 4 October 1929, Page 9
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