CRAB LANDINGS
The Scottish invention which enables Planes to land cross-wind, crab-fashion iTvear ICir t6d T I*™ aSS 14 years ago. In 1930 a Perth radio™S?l?. d a., undercarriage which greatly impressed local airmen Ai^L?°n Sldered by the De Havilland Jff. Company, Ltd., and provisionally patented in England. He could not get an established aircraft com?«S y a «° co™m' ercialise the invention, f n nd all(i wed the Provisional patents to lapse. Mr Evans says that his inven\l!£L I W? uld Permit the two landing wheels to swing in a lateral arc of anytning up to 180 degrees. They autom^ C A11l all, gned themselves and permitted the plane to land squarely even in a side wind.
Mr. G. A. Cornford, stockman, of Gorge Road, Ngahauranga, received a lacerated wound to the back of his head when he fell down a bank on to a concrete path in Thane Road, Rose- , neath, about 2.30 a.m. today. He was ilan hos Pi! ;al by the Free AmbuhJ' 1™? taS inf £, 40CL were imposed ry M^ J- R Luxford, S.M., upon Joseph Plamus, agent, Whakatane, in the Magistrate's Court, Auckland for making false returns of income, states |a Press Association message. A plea of guilty was entered to four charges. Mr. G. R. Meredith said that Plamus was a Dalmatian and a bookmaker by occupation. '■ :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 8
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223CRAB LANDINGS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 8
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