LANDED SAFELY
CAPTAIN PERCIVAL’S FLYING PLANS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 4, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 3. Captain E. W. Percival and his passengers landed safely at Buc military aerodrome near Versailles. It has been learned that when Captain Percival left for France, he was undecided whether to land at Le Bourget or Buc. Mr W. A. Summers, works manager of the Percival Aircraft Establishment at Luton said that Captain Percival’s three passengers are an Australian, Robert Frewen, who for the past three months had been on the sales staff of Percival Aircraft, F. W. Howarth, engineer-officer, attached to the Royal Air Force experimental department at Martelsham. Captain Heath, one of the designers of the Queen Bee, and a member of the Board of Trade mission that visited United States in April in connection with the purchase of aeroplanes, Rowarth is the Royal Aero Club’s handicapper. The third passenger is an Air Force officer whose name is at present unknown. He is a friend of Captain Percival. The party intends visiting the aircraft exhibition at Paris. It was reported on Saturday that Captain Edgar Wikner Percival, the Australian aeroplane designer, the pilot of an aeroplane and four passengers was missing between Heston and Paris.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21211, 5 December 1938, Page 7
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206LANDED SAFELY Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21211, 5 December 1938, Page 7
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