AVIATION
PLANE ON FIRE . [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —CO, ?Y BIGHT.] (Recd. August 31, 10 a. in.) VANCOUVER, August 30. A Waxahachie (Texas) message states: —Bozo, the synthetic rainmaker, tossed a bomb from an aeroplane at 1200 feet. The machine caught fire when on the wing. Pilot Foote dived desperately for earth as Bozo threw the three remaining bombs, being severely burned. While the crowd gasped and news-reels clicked, the pilot made a perfect landing in a cotton field. One wing fell off. The occupants scrambled out as fire enveloped and consumed the machine. ' ULM’S MISSION. SYDNEY, August 30. Ulm sailed by the Makura, to-day, en route to America, to inquire into aviation developments, also to take delivery in England, of a two engine latest type of British commercial aeroplane. It is uncertain whether he will fly back to Australia.
Dilkerton: Don’t look so glum, Pilkerton; use cheery words —they cost nothing. Pilkerton: Cost nothing! If I speak ten cheery words to my wife she asks me for some money. /
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 August 1934, Page 2
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