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AIR FORGE MACHINES COLLIDE PILOTS LAND SAFELY (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, May 16. When six Royal Air Force singleseater planes of the Northumberland Squadron were looping the loop in close formation to-day two of the machines collided and crashed. Both pilots— Flight-lieutenant Brookes and Sergeant Willis—jumped and landed safely by parachutes. MISS JEAN BATTEN ANOTHER STAGE COMMENCED. CALCUTTA, May 17. Miss Batten left here at 5.15 a.m. for Rangoon. MELBOURNE AIR RACE LONDON, May 17. (Received May 18, at 10.30 a.m.) ' The Australian airman, H. Broadbent, has entered for tho centenary handicap race, flying a Fox Moth,
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Evening Star, Issue 21723, 18 May 1934, Page 7
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101AVIATION Evening Star, Issue 21723, 18 May 1934, Page 7
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