INTREPID AIRMEN.
Cross Channel In Storm To See Camera Fight. WIVES ACCOMPANY THEM. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 0. When Saturday's gale suspended boat and aeroplane 'cross-Channel services Mr.-A. Butler, chairman of the de Havilland Company, and Mr. Nigel Norman, director of the airport, determined to occupy ringside seats at the Camera fight in Paris which they had booked. They and their wives set forth in their own Gipsy Moth 'planes in the midst of the rain-laden tempest and reached Paris with their wive.'- dinner time. Terrific bumps shook 'planes and would have thrown tl pants from their seats had they in, . n strapped in. They, were the only aerial Channel crossers on Saturday.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 292, 10 December 1929, Page 7
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