TOWN BOMBARDED
AN AERIAL ENGAGEMENT. The little town of Evesham a few days ago bad a novel experience—that of being bombarded .with part® of an airplane which had got into difficulties while flying over the village. The first intimation to the town that anything wrong had happened came when with a terrific crash one ol the cylinders from the ’plane’s engine dropped in the street, narrowly missing a startled cyclist. Almost immediately afterwards a piece of belting fell into the central fruit market, causing a liasty exodus of market men and buyers. A piece of sheet tin, weighing about twenty pounds, next badly scared some women who were picking fruit in an orchard on tho edge of the town. There followed a rain of ’plane parts, such as a piece of propeller pistons, small holts and screw®. Everybody expected ‘ the occupants of the ’plane to come next, but they finally managed to land quite unharmed in an asparagus bed, refusing any explanation for the strange behaviour of their aircraft.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11686, 26 November 1923, Page 4
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169TOWN BOMBARDED New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11686, 26 November 1923, Page 4
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