“MYSTERY” AEROPLANE
FOR UNITED STATES NAVY DEMOLISHED IN CRASH (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. December 4, 10 p.m.) Washington, December 3. The United States “mystery” aeroplane was demolished when it fell 3000 feet over a naval air station when the right wing dropped off during difficult manoeuvres. The pilot, James Collins, landed from a parachute, and is suffering from shock. The ’plane was one on which the Curtiss Company had worked for a year and was reported to have cost 100,000 dollars. It was considered to have been one of the year’s outstanding aviation developments. NO MORE WOODEN ’PLANES (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) London, December 3. In the House of Commons the Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, told a questioner that no more wooden aeroplanes were being brought into the service of the R.A.F. Metal aircraft, strength for strength, were lighter than wood and less affected by extremes of climate, and their resilience and freedom from splintering and reduced risk to personnel in the event of a crash, were also in their favour. TEN KILLED IN CRASH (Australian Press Association.) Rio de Janeiro, December 3. Ten persons were killed when a seaplane crashed in the bay carrying the reception committee to welcome the Brazilian aviator Santos Dumont, Everyone aboard was killed.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 61, 5 December 1928, Page 11
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