Jap’s Costly New Plane
A DISASTROUS START. (Aus. A N.Z. Cable Assn). NEW YORK March 29. Captain Yoshinori Nagoya an Imperial Japanese Army Reserve flier, was killed instantly whe n a new forty-thousand-dollar aeroplane, in which he hoped to make a non-stop flight from the United States to Japan, crashed near the Floyd Bennett Airport a few seconds after he had departed on a trial flight. His body was removed just before the gasoline tank exploded, completely destroying the craft by fire. BRITISH SQUADRON IN AFRICA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 29. The Royal Air Force machines arrived at Heliopolis to-day on the conclusion of their East African flight. The bomber transport squadron which has flown from Heliopolis to Somaliland, and is now on the way back, left Khartoum for Chaschm El-Girba to-day.
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Grey River Argus, 31 March 1932, Page 5
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