EVENTFUL FLIGHT.
GALE IN COOK STRAIT. AIRMEN WIN THROUGH. NAPIER, this day. Captain George Bolt «nd Captain Stidman, of Wellington, arrived at Napier on Saturday in an Avro-Avian plane, after a two and a-half hour trip from Wellington. On Friday they flew from Christchureh to Wellington in three and three-quarter hours in a howling gale, the weather being so bad that the airmen were fearful that they would jiot reach Wellington.
The flyers actually turned back but again "gave it a go" and landed 'safely at Lyall Bay.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 11, 14 January 1929, Page 10
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88EVENTFUL FLIGHT. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 11, 14 January 1929, Page 10
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