AERIAL NAVIGATION.
FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA. MISHAP TO MATTHEWS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) WELTEVREDEN, Sunday. Captain Matthews, after reconnoitring, attempted to land, but the motor refused to act and Matthews lost eontrol'of the machine, which crashed in a banana garden adjoining the Hying ground. The aeroplane was destroyed, and Sergeant Kay had some ribs damaged. Further flight has been abandoned. SYDNEY TO MELBOURNE. (Received Monday, 10.35 a.m.) . SYDNEY, This Day. Commercial aviation has advanced a further step in Australia by the completion of the Right of an Avro machine with a passenger from Melbourne to Sydney in nine, hours. The machine returns to-morrow with, another passenger.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WDT19200419.2.51
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14100, 19 April 1920, Page 5
Word Count
109AERIAL NAVIGATION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14100, 19 April 1920, Page 5
Using This Item
National Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of National Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in