LEAP FROM 'PLANE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1936, Page 7

LEAP FROM 'PLANE.

Two Airmen's Escape from Burning Machine. FAMOUS CRAFT DESTROYED. (Received 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Remarkable escapes from death or serious injury were experienced by Pilot Kenneth Horn and a passenger, Mr. Herbert Morris, when their 'plane crashed and burst into flames while attempting to land in a paddock near Singleton. The machine was the famous "Red Rose," in which Mrs. Keith Miller and Captain Lancaster flew to Australia in 1927. Messrs. Horn and Morris leaped from the burning 'plane as it struck the ground. The machine was burned to ashes. AIR RACE PRIZES. JOHANNESBURG CENTENARY. (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 7. The donation of £10,000 by Mr Sclilesinger, a South African millionaire, for an air race from London to Johannesburg in connection with the Johannesburg Centenary Exhibition will be divided into one prize for speed and four for handicap placings, as follows: — Fastest speed, £4000. Handicap, winner, £3000; second, £1500; third, £1000; fourth, £500.

FORMALLY OPENED. NEW BRITISH AIRPORT. British Official Wireless. (Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, June 7. The new airport at Gatwick, Surrey, was formally opened by Viscount Swinton, Secretary for Air. It has been in regular use by British airways for the last month. At the opening the fastest squadron of Royal Air Force fighters and other military and civil aircraft took part.

Lord Swinton, who arrived by air, was the principal guest at a luncheon attended by 600 visitors. Before the opening ceremony most countries linked by the services of British airways, including France, Germany, Holland, Den-

mark and Sweden, were also officially represented.