AERONAUTICAL EPOCH

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 7

AERONAUTICAL EPOCH

Celebration of Bleriot's First Channel Flight. THE OLD AND THE NEW. VERSAILLES, June 24. At the height of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of M. Louis Bleriot's cross-channel flight, the veteran airman suffered a heart attack after walking for an hour in the hot sup at the Buc aerodrome, the scene of his early experiments.

M. Bleriot recovered after lying down for a while, and was welcomed by the Prime Minister, M. Doumergue, the British Air Minister, the Marquees of Londonderry, and other visitors. He exhibited the aeroplane in which he flew from Calais to Dover in 1909.. Subsequently this-machine was again flown, contrasting strangely with the_ display given by 14 members of tha British Air Force flying in the latest Hawker Furies.

AIR COLLISION. TWO AVIATORS KILLED. ADELAIDE, June 24. Two aeroplanes collided at an altitude of 200 ft yesterday over an aerodrome near Adelaide. The pilots, Laurence Newman, aged 27, and Blair Cowan, aged 10, were killed. When the machines touched, one win£ of Cowan's was ripped off and his aeroplane nose-dived. Newman attempted to make a flat landing, but was too near the ground and his machine also nose-dived. The aeroplanes fell a quarter of a mile apart, and were converted into masses of wreckage. Newman had been married only three week".