The "Daily Express" reveals the scene at the aerodrome a few minutes before the departure of the machine. It says that two chauffeur-driven saloon cars ...
Article : 320 wordsThere is considerable speculation concerning the delay which has occurred in the sailing of the first battle squadron of the Mediterranean Fleet from Malta. The ...
Article : 422 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, Commander Bellairs asked if the telegraphed statement was true that certain officers of the Royal Oak, who had refused to ...
Article : 76 wordsThe "Sunday Times" states that the Royal Oak trouble is purely personal to the three officers concerned, and the discipline of the officers and men of the ...
Article : 97 wordsEngland has abandoned hope regarding the safety of the aviators on the Endeavour. For a time scores of false alarms from America sustained a faint ...
Article : 201 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet (Admiral Sir Roger Keyes), as the result of an enquiry regarding disciplinary ...
Article : 102 wordsRear-Admiral Collard sailed for London on Sunday, under instructions from the Admiralty. ...
Article : 19 wordsAn Admiralty communique states that the report of the Malta court of enquiry, which investigated disciplinary matters affecting Rear-Admiral Collard, Captain ...
Article : 85 wordsIt is unofficially stated that three officers became involved in a personal dispute, and as the intervention of Sir Roger Keyes failed, the only course was to ...
Article : 40 wordsIn the House of Commons, the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Bridgeman), replying to Mr. Ammon, said he was unable to give details of the trouble on ...
Article : 183 wordsSucked in the wake of a huge bombing machine, with which it collided, a disabled Bristol fighter crashed 700 feet on to the Monston Aerodrome. The occupants ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Admiralty declines to make any more announcements respecting the Royal Oak incident, and states that it may foe a fortnight before it will be in a position to disclose the facts. The ...
Article : 107 wordsThe "Daily Express" has revealed the feet that extraordinary preparations were made by Captain Hinchliffe to ensure success. On the day before his departure ...
Article : 316 wordsThe suggestion that Flying-Lieutenant Kinkead who was killed on Monday while atempting to break the high-speed flying record, was poisoned by fumes ...
Article : 163 wordsWORLD'S SPEED RECORD EQUALLED. At the Speedway Royal on Saturday night Dlek Smythe, riding in the third heat of the Speedway Derby, defeated "Sprouts" Elder. His time was 1.5 3-5, which equalled the world's record, for one mile, established recently by Paddy Dean. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 60 wordsThe First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Bridgeman) informed Mr. C. G. Ammon (Under Secretary for the Admiralty in Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's Government) ...
Article : 452 wordsLady Bailey (wife of Sir Abe Bailey, the South African millionaire), who ia flying to South Africa, has arrived at Catania. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe spectacle of an airman deliberately crashing was witnessed at Stag-lane to-day. Major De Havilland, in a Moth, was demonstrating the value of an ...
Article : 149 wordsSir Alan Cobham was the first aviator who instructed the Hon. Elsie Mackay, who obtained a pilot's certificate in 1922, after a test in which she took off alone ...
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Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), Sat 24 Mar 1928, Page 58
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