TRAGEDIES IN AIR TESTS
BRITISH FLYING OFFICERS
FIGHTERS AND BOMBERS
(Reed. Aug. 12, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 1.1
Two .airmen, Pilot Officer A. Buchanan Wollaston and Pilot Officer (Harold Stewart Olding, were killed when their single-seater fighters, which were engaged in the air exercises, crashed near Bigginghill early this morning.
A .Royal Air Force bomber participating in the “raiding” test struck a high tension cable at Cranfield and caught fire. Two were killed, including an Australian, Flying Officer William Kinane,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20014, 12 August 1939, Page 5
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