FLOWN FROM VALLEY
STRANDED AEROPLANE *>. PREPARATION '-€F RUNWAY [by telegraph—own correspondent] GREYMOUTH, Monday . The West Coast United Aero Club's Tiger Moth machine, which was forced down in the Taipo Yalley in the region of the Southern Alps on Thursday afternoon when being brought from Christchurch to the Wost Coast by PilotOfficer Lloyd Parry, of Christchurcli, was flown out late this afternoon by the club's instructor, Flight-Lieutenant W. F. Parke. Owing to the lateness oi its departure the machine landed Inclibonnie, and, weather permitting) will be flown to Greymouth to-morrow. During the week-end members of the Greymouth Aero Club cleared 150 yards of runway on tljo banks of the Taipo River, removing 1 boulders weighing * s much as a ton and s. quantity of dea timber. Securing the wiugs from the club's other machine, members too them in on a cradle over a rough pw track for.seven or eight miles off t 5 highway. These wingsi were fitted on 11 machine, replacing those damaged ® the landing, under the supervision « Mr. F. So well,-an inspector of the M Department.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23413, 1 August 1939, Page 8
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