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aeroplanes at waipaka. party buffeted BY storm. Two aeroplanes from the Marlborough Aero Club on * journey to Cbristchurch on Sunday had to make thrilling forced landing ftfc Waipftra, driven down after a long battle with a liefld-wind of gale force The.landing was made safely, Just before the force of the storm reached its height, and one aeroplane had a narrow escape from being damaged when a violent it round on one wing tip. Tha machines were two Gypsy Motha, and the party of three was in u"„ rtf Mr F. Dix, the son of the charge ot A wag made from the aerodrome early in the - ntid heavy weather waa enmorriing, light aeroplanes had countered. bat £ le with a a fhSlv head wind, which increased rfS? and the distance to Waipnra —about' 150 milea— occupied three h °Over that district the pilots saw . V e ,\,„ „ pn tre of the storm waa a n a l nhead o7 them, and their fuel si'Sy was running verv low. A landintt wal necessary and after circling over Waipara the aerothree times, over £ adt , oek of Mr planes [* n It was an excellent S minutes after the aeroplanes • i t aarl the storm broke, and one of them was spun round on the tip of one w£« before the men oould secure it Fortunately no serious damage resulted and willing helpers assisted iri taking the aeroplanes under the , machines had used its °", e If fori and the other had SU J£iflnt left for a few more miles only The stage covered had used 19 2 from Waipara. i o.m. there was a lull m a? s» a , t h «r rtr c<m """ B<, the trip to Ohnstchurch.