AIRPLANE DAMAGED
CLOD HITS ELEVATOR LANDING ACCIDENT Special to THE SUN PALMERSTON N., Today. A Simmonds - Spartan airplane piloted by Lieutenant J. Buckeridge. with Mr. D. Raine as passenger, was damaged on Saturday afternoon in landing on Terry’s property at Milson’s Line, where the Manawatu Airport League proposes to establish an aviation field. Lieutenant Buckeridge, who has been in Palmerston North for the past fortdight conducting daily “joy flights” over the town, flew to the field in order to test it out. The machine made the landing safely, but in travelling over the rough unprepared ground a large clod flew up from one of the wheels and smashed into the left-tail elevator fin. The fin was damaged and had to be removed and brought into town for repairs. The plane stayed at Milson overnight, but was in the air again yesterday.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1071, 8 September 1930, Page 14
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