PILOT “SHOWING OFF”
FINED £5O AFTER CRASH. GOSPORT, May 20. •An airman who admitted “showing off” his flying skill to men on the ground whom he knew, was lined here to-day £5O (including costs) for causing unnecessary danger to persons was an aeroplane. lie was Peter Alexander Nicholas, an admiral’s son, of Lee-on-Solent, whose machine crashed in the Fairfield Nurseries, Gosport, on May 2. George Victor Mason, a gardener, declared that twice the machine dived to within 10£t. of where he was standing. Then it rose to a good height, carried out a loop and corkscrew, circled round, and again dived towards him. He crouched to the ground, and the machine struck a garden frame. It was completely wrecked. A constable stated that in hospital the day after the crash Nicholas said: “1 know I was a d d fool. Later when he was told that he would bej summoned, he replied: “It was my fault.' I hit an air pocket and crashed.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1936, Page 14
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