HAYSTACK STRUCK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 101, 2 May 1938, Page 11

HAYSTACK STRUCK.

AEROPLANE WRECKED PILOT LITTLE INJURED. END TO NIGHT-FLYING TEST. (By Telegraph.- Press Awoclatlon.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. While doing half an hour's ni«htfl}ing test for a B license at Wigram last night, a member of the Marlborough Club, Mr. E. J. Speight, made a tow approach when coming in to land. The machine struck a haystack on the south side of the aerodrome ami was almost completely wrecked. The pilot escape d with a slight cut on the f-.rehead. Mr. Speight had passed all the other tests for a B license in the previous throe days and was doing a night-flying test under the observation of examining oflicers of the Koyal New Zealand Air oree. He flew the machine, a Canadian Moot two-seater training biplane, belonging to the Marlborough Club, from Blenheim on Wednesday, and last nio-ht was the first clear night on which ni~htflymg could be done. Officials of the club flew down to-day to inspect the machine after it had been lifted from the haystack. The wreckage was packed on a lorry for the return to Blenheim. Except for the engine, the machine is practically a complete write on.