AERIAL MATTERS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 August 1919, Page 8

AERIAL MATTERS

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(Received Aug. 27, 9.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 26. Thirteen aeroplanes have arrived at -Albany from Toronto. Colonel Barker, the Canadian "ace," -*as arrived at Mineola, and is preparing to return. Three out of the twelve Canadian machines have reached the Roosevelt landing field in New York. The other nine were unable to continue from Albany owing to adverse weather. Sergeant C. B. Coombs arrived first, his flight time being 6 hours 21 minutes. Roland Rholfs was second, and Major Schroeder third. These three planes will start on the return flight to Toronto to-day. None of the twenty-nine American aeroplanes which it- Nf w York for Toronto reached their destination owing to weather conditions and accidents.