CAUGHT IN A STORM.
TWO MARLBOROUGH 'PLANES
FORCED LANDING AT WAIPAEA,
(By- Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
CHRISTCHURCH, Monday.
Two Marlborough aeroplanes, while %ing to Christchurch, were forced by a gale to land at Waipara. / The machines were two Gipsy Moths and the party was in the charge of Mr. -F. Dix, son of the president of the club. The light aeroplanes had a long and strenuous battle with a southerly headend, and the distance to Waipara, about 150 miles, occupied three hours. Over that district the pilots saw that the centre of the storm was a little ahead of them and their fuel supply was running very low. After circling three times over Waipara the aeroplanes landed in the paddock of Mr. A. George. A few minutes after the aeroplanes had landed the storm broke and one of them was spun round on the tip of one wing before the men •wild secure it. Fortunately no serious oamage resulted, and willing helpers assisted, in taking the aeroplanes under tne trees. <
More petrol was secured from Waipara at 3.45 p.m., when there was a lull m. the storm, the party continued the tn P to Christchurch.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 171, 22 July 1930, Page 9
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