THE GIPSY MOTH
HASTINGS’ NEW ’PLANE
ARRIVAL THIS AFTERNOON.
SPLENDID TRIP FROM CHRISTCHURCH.
Flying Officer Olsen, of the Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Aero Club, wired that he, left Wellington for Hastings at 10 o’clock this morning, with the club’s new Gipsy Moth machine, having Mr. Dudley Newbegin. of Hastings, as a passenger. They arrived at Hastings this afternoon at, 12.50 o’clock. Interviewed shortly after their arrival, Mr. Olsen said the trip had been an uneventful one. The Moth flew wonderfully well, and both he and his passenger thoroughly enjoyed the fight. They made a thirty-minpte call nt Martinborough, from where they flew to Hastings in one hour and three-quarters. Yesterday the 'plane crossed Cook Strait, doing the trip in cloudy weather in two hours 20 minutes. “The Moth is going to be -a great acquisition to the club and will do great work,’’ he said. CANADIAN “ACE'.’ KILLED. (United Frees Association—By Cable— Copyright.) (Received 13, 10.45 a.m.) Ottawa, March 12. Colonel W. G. Barker. Canada, second ranking war air ace, ‘credited with 52 machines, was killed to-day when the ’plane in which -he was demonstrating crashed.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 73, 13 March 1930, Page 7
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