TOO LOW FLYING.
DANGER TO THE PUBLIC. . (From Odb Own Correspondent.) LONDON, October 3.' An Oxford rowing blue, named Hugh Robert Arthur Edwards, of Kensington, was fined £2O at Marlow on September 25 for piloting an aeroplane which had not been certified as airworthy and for not carrying a certificate of airworthiness. Captain Reginald Berkeley, the playwright and author, said that while -playing lawn tennis in his garden with a friend on June 1 they were startled by a ‘ low-flying aeroplane. He took the number and reported the matter to the Air Ministry. Edwards said that he paid the Air Ministry for a certificate for a whole year.,- They required two modifications to be 1 made to aeroplanes before issuing an airworthiness certificate for a year, and only issued the certificate to March 18. He had the modifications made and reported the matter to the Ministry, but they would not grant the certificate until the aeroplane had been inspected. The Bench decided, in yiew of the great danger to the.public in flying uncertified aircraft,' to impose a fine of £lO on, each charge.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21195, 28 November 1930, Page 12
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