N.I. AIR PAGEANT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 80, 16 March 1934, Page 6

N.I. AIR PAGEANT

First Time in Hawke’s Bay | ■Saturday. March 21, will he the first occasion on which the Official North Island Air Pageant has been allotted to Hawke’s . and it- will be many on is again sei u here. The 11.8. and . Aero ( lub, therefore, • hiivr decided io ensure that this "'ll I be the best of its kind yet seen in the Dominion. No expense has been spared to ensure that many items of a unique character will be presented to the public. The night air pageant itself is the first to be staged in New Zealand. “Softy” Fraser attempts u night parachute jump lor the time.

' night bombing b v Air’Force bombers is i also to lie seen for the first time. | ! Among other unique items are a race | I between two parachutes, an air battle [ I between Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith i in the Southern Cross and FlightLieutenant, Gerrand in a Moth, aerobatics in 600 horse-power fast singleseater Air Force fighters, aerobatics at I night in illuminated machines, demon- | .strutions ol' wing-walking while th-.' I aeroplane is in flight, joy-riding by the Southern Cross at night, and many other items. In all some fifty machines arc expected and the whole programmes have heen arranged with clock-like regularity. The afternoon pageant commences at 2 p.tn. and the night display at 8 p.m at the club'* new aerodrome [ next to the ijjplf link*. j