AVIATION.
GREAT ZEPPELIN FLIGHT United Press Association.—By Ehsctrh Telegraph.—Copyright.) BERLIN Sept. 28. The giant airship Graf Zeppelin made a brilliant all-day circumnavigation journey over Bavaria. The guests included Flight Lieut. Booth, the hero of the R. .‘lB breakaway in 1925, and also a New Zealander, Mr Clarence Paa. BRITISH AIR CASUALTIES. LONDON, Sept. ?-« During the year 1927, the British Royal Air Force fatalities totalled 52 out of 133 casualties, as compared with 78 fatalities and 179 casualties in 1926. The present, casualty list is the lowest recorded. The Imperial Airways machines from 1925 to 1927 flew 2,400,000 miles and carried 5,4,000 passengers, with not one serious accident.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1928, Page 6
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