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Southern Highlands · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929

3 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

The Fliers. Moir and Owen Injured. Vellore Wrecked

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 29 May 1929 · page 2

The official reports received by the Department of Civil Av[?]ation from Mr. Brain, pilot of the Atalanta, is that in the landing the Vellore…

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Plane Wrecked

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 12 June 1929 · page 2

Mr. Mckay, President of the Victorian Aero Club, and a member of the Air Inquiry Board, landed at Bong Bong racecourse in his Gypsy…

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'Plane Wrecked. Crashed Into Live Wires. Airmen Unhurt

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 9 October 1929 · page 2

Failing to rise in a cross-wind on Monday morning, a Gipsy Moth 'plane crashed into some high-tension electric wires near the Bong Bong…

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