BIPLANE CATCHES IN FENCE
PHO PEELER. BLADES BROKEN*. Captain Bolt met with a slight mishap with an Avro-Avian biplane at Napier on Sunday morning. When landing on the outskirts of Napier the machine struck a rat "or swampy patch. The pilot endeavoured, to rise again to recover and the machine left the ground safely, but two wires of a ’fence caught the under-carriage and threw the head of the machine to-, wards the ground, with the result that both blades of the propeller were snapped, the under-carriage was badly damaged, and one wing slightly affected. Bolt and his one passenger were unin-’ jured.
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Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 14 November 1928, Page 4
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