ROUGH TRIP
FOUR ’PLANES FROM DUNEDIN ONE MACHINE DAMAGED (By Telegraph—Press Association) BLENHEIM, This Day. Four airplanes which left Dunedin yesterday for Wellington had an exceptionally rougV trip throughout. All went well until they approached Blenheim last evening, when as a result of four hours' battle against head winds from Christchurch, petrol supplies ran low. Captain J. Stcdmau, of Wellington Aero Club, who had C. C. Waite as passenger in the club’s Spartan, made a forced landing in a paddock at Blind river belonging to J. Costello. The machine overturned and smashed the propeller. The airmen escaped unhurt. Pilot Jamieson, of Wellington flying solo in a Moth, turned back and landed safely aloyugido the Spartan. The other two machines, piloted by Sinclair of Masterton, and F. McDonald of Wellington, reached Blenheim with the petrol exhausted and just swooped into the ’drome. A propellor for the Spartan is being sent from Wellinfton. The machine will fly home when the weather clears.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19310223.2.5
Bibliographic details
Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 23 February 1931, Page 2
Word Count
160ROUGH TRIP Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 23 February 1931, Page 2
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Nelson Evening Mail. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.