AVIATION
“MYSTERY” PLANE WRECKED.
Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)
WASHINGTON, December 3. The United States “mystery” aeroplane was demolished ’when it fell 3000 feet over the naval station. The right wing dropped off during difficult manoeuvres. Pilot James Collins landed from a parachute, and suffered from shock. The plane was one on which the Curtis 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. AERONAUTICAL CONFERENCE. WASHINGTON, December 4. Australian representatives to the Aeronautical Conference, arriving in San Francisco on December 6, will proceed by aeroplane from California 'to Chicago, to participate with other delegates in the Aeronautical Exhi bition which is being held there now. They will fly to Dayton, Ohio, on December 10, to participate in the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19281206.2.9
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1928, Page 2
Word Count
150AVIATION Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1928, Page 2
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.