MISHAP TO ’PLANE.
BREAKING OF Aif AXLE. THAMES, Sept. 25. When landing after a flight from Tauranga, Mr A. E. Blaikie’s Hermes Spartan aeroplane met with a slight misha.p. Mr Blaikie was making a good landing, but when the right-hand landing wheel touched the ground the axle broke and the aeroplane bumped along the ground for over 30 yards, damaging the tips of the propeller and the lower wings.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 256, 26 September 1933, Page 8
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69MISHAP TO ’PLANE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 256, 26 September 1933, Page 8
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