IN THE AIR
A PLANE MISSING
LANDS SAFELY IN FRANCE. (Australian Press Association). SYDNEY, December 3. Captain Edgar Wikner Percival, the Australian aeroplane designer, the pilot of an aeroplane with four passengers, is missing between Heston mid Paris. He has not reported since lie was over the Channel at 3 p.m. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, December 3. Captain Percival and his passengers landed safely at the Buc military aerodrome, near Versailles. It is learned that, when be left for France, he was undecided whether to land at*Le Bourget or at Buc. Mr W. A. Summers, works manager for the Percival Aircraft/ establishment in Luton, said that Captain Percival’s three passengers are: An Australian, Mr Robert Frewen, who'for the past three -months has been on the sale staff of the Percival Aircraft Coy.; Mr F. W. Rowarth, engineer, an -officer attached to the R.A.F. experimental department at Martelsham Heath,'who was one of the designers of the Queen Bee (and a member of the Board of Trade Mission that visited the United States last April in connection with the purchase of aeroplanes. Mr Rowarth is the Royal Aero Club’s handicapper. The third passenger in an Air lorce officer, whose name, is at present unknown. He is a friend of Captain Percival. The party intends visiting the aircraft exhibition in Paris.
CALPURNIA’S MAIL
LONDON, December 3
The Postmaster-General has announced that the bulk of the Calpurnia’s mail has been salvaged. It is in bad condition, owing to its immersion in the lake. It will he dried and be forwarded by air.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1938, Page 5
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