AIR RACING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16374, 23 June 1927, Page 11

AIR RACING

EXPERTS' GRAVE WARNING LONDON, Juno S. During fi trial flight at the Bournemouth Whit Sunday mooting, •'» •'plane, piloted by the English pioneer airman, Major 11. Hemming, who was accompanied by a Cambridge student, St. John Plcvins, collided with a loud-speaker pole on the ground and crashed. Mrs. Hemming dragged the men, both unconscious, from the wreckage. Plevins died later. Hemming is critically injured. "Air Maids" provided plenty of thrill at the meeting. Mrs. Elliott Lynn, by rounding the corner in a hair-raising vertical bank, u few foot from the rails, in the Inst lap, won the Ladies' Purse from Lady Bailey, with Mrs. Roll and Miss O'Brien next.

Bert Dinkier, the Australian air man, won a race in which six machines crossed the finishing line bunched. Inches only separated the lower machines from the ground, and their wings from the undercarriages of those above thorn.

A reporter understands fch'at oxports, who have witnessed the trials, have warned the Air Ministry that, the air pageant at liendon on July 2 will be attended by a holocaust if the organisers persist with the programme of massed jazzing and massed aerobatics.

The fact that nobody has so far killed, they say, has been due to the kindness of nature rather than to the skill of the pilots. The least side gust is likely to precipitate half n dozen locked, and probably blazing, machines into the crowd.