The Archive · 1929

CANTON SQUADRON'S TRIP TO NANKING

Arrival of Monoplane with Gen, Chen Ming-chu Gen, Chang Wei-chang arrived at) the "Hungjao Aerodrome. on. September 4, piloting the Waco monoplane Pan-pu and carrying Gen. Chen Ming-chu, chiair~ man of the Kuangtung Provincial} Government, as passenger. The machine was accompanied by the Yunnanese biplane Ching-ma (Golden Horse), which went to Hangchow on. the previous afternoon to wel Jcome the new Commander-in-Chief, Jof the National Air Fleet.

The Toi-shan crashed at Amoy and, contrary to reports which have appeared in the vernacular press, Col. Yang Kuan-yn, the pilot, who studied aviation in the same school Col. Charles Lindbergh, in America, was not injured, though his plane was wrecked.

The Nam-hoi subsequently was discovered at a place known Tung-yang hsien, in Chekiang to the south of Ningpo. The Nam-hoi was caught in the midst of thick clouds and a heavy fog, and Col. ¥ang circled about to discover his position, In doing this, he ran out of gasoline and was compelled to make a forced landing at Tungyangchsien.

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