’PLANE FORCED DOWN
TWO OCCUPANTS UNHURT. MACHINE DAMAGED. Sydney, June 6. The Australian made Jones monoplane, piloted by Mr Roy Mitchell, with the owner, Mr L. R. J. Jones, as a passenger, left Quakers’ Hill, near Windsor, yesterday morning, ostensibly for a flight to Bourke and back, but were forced down at Sturt Town, 235 miles west of Sydney. The ’plane was damaged, but Mitchell and Jones were unhurt.
Mr Jones, who is aeronautical lecturer at the Technical College, designed and built the monoplane for a Tasmau flight to New Zealand, piloted by Mr Mitchell, of Mosman. The machine is fitted with a 110 horse power Harkness Hornet engine locally made. In test flights it disclosed remarkable speed and climbing qualities. It was fitted with special blind flying instruments, also extra tanks for petrol so that tho piano would have a range of 1500 miles. DARWIN-LONDON FLIGHT. WEIR MAKES A START. Darwin, Juno 6. Tho airman Weir left Darwin at 6.30 this morning for Koepang, where he arrived at 10.1.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 147, 7 June 1932, Page 8
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