THE DEAD AIRMAN.
LIKED BY EVERYONE. ——r INCAPABLE 0F ILL-WILL. United Press A:sn.»—£lec. Tel. Copyright. SYDNEY, May ‘25. Many tributes to the late Mr \\'. M. O'Hara, were paid tovday by leading airmen in Sydney. The aviation cor—respondent 01' the Sun describes him as it most likeable and friendly airman, ever ready to do agood turn, incapa‘ble ot' ill—\\‘ill and always genial. “Everyone at Mascot liked him.“ says the writer. “Probably this friendliness led to his undoing. He would have leaned away from the instrument board to wave to his friends. As he climbed into the air the speed of the machine would have slipped back and before he would have been aware of it the aeroplanewould have come to a critical stalling angle where there would be no longer sufficient [lying speed for a lift. Then the aileron control would go and the machine would (all. He would have struggled to flatten out, rbut would have been too near the ground to regain control. Then the crash." The Union Bank and the Shell Company are handling the arrangements on behalf of Mr O‘Hara's relatives in New Zealand to whom his remains are to be sent for burial.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19895, 26 May 1936, Page 9
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197THE DEAD AIRMAN. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19895, 26 May 1936, Page 9
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