AIRSHIP HINDENBURG
ESCAPE FROM COLLISION ROYAL AIR FORCE MACHINE LONDON, July 9 It is revealed that the German airship Hindenburg, during her recent flight over England, missed disaster by a few feet. A Royal Air Force instructional aeroplane, in which a pilot was practising blind flying, was among the clouds when the Zeppelin loomed ahead The instructor in the aeroplane pulled the controls and dived sharply. Ho saw the windows of the gondola flash by and had ho not altered his course he would have rammed the airship amidships.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22468, 11 July 1936, Page 13
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