Pilot Injured.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 69, 22 March 1941, Page 3 (Supplement)

Pilot Injured.

Mishap While Plane Engaged

on Test Flight

Shock and abrasions wore rcorivcil by Flight-Lieutenant A. V. ("Peter") Jury, test pifot at the Royal New Zealand Air Foree ba?e at Hobsonville, when a Hawker Hind bomber, which lie was testing, landed in the Wliau Kiver this uiornir.s. T"ie inarliinc had reeently been asseninled and was on a test flight.

Inforination as to whether tho machine fas damaged is not yet available. The pilot has been taken to the Auckland Hospital, and his condition is reported to be not berioiw.

The first intimation of the accident received at the air base was a telephone ring from an unknown person. In response to the message, a. high-speed launch was immediately dispatched to the scene. The pilot was picked up liv the launch and taken to the air base hospital. Later he was removed to the Public Hospital.,

Formerly a well-known pilot on commercial air lines in the Dominion, Flight-Lieutenant Jury originally came from the Wairarapa. He was an enthusiastic club pilot, and at one time owned a machine. When commercial aviation was being developed in Xew Zealand be joined one of the air lines as a co-pilot, and was later promoted to commandcr. Flight-Lieu tenant Jury was an experienced pilot, and has flown machines for Union Airways. Last Coast A i I'ways and Cook Strait Airways. For some years he was farming in the Lower Waikato. He is a married man and has twin children.

The Hawker Hind type of machine is one of the latest additions to the Royal Xew Zealand Air Force and is a single engine two-seater light bomber, which can be used for dive-bonvbing. It is powered with a super-charged Rolls Royce-Kestrel engine which ie partlyliquid cooled. Of the machine one aviation expert wrote: "Operating at over 200 miles an hour with a full load it is difficult to overtake, and a«s a type is difficult to surpass." " • J