| Show T accident demolishes half of ARich fields air meet what a calamity half of Rich fields air fleet is destroyed by accident but luckily no one was seriously injured after having spent the greater part of a year building making over testing experimenting and improving their treasured airplane mel tanner les lea hartle and walter tucker sunday decided to go for a ride taking off from the richfield airport they had no definite destination in mind it was to be merely a pleasure trip for a while they glided on the breeze near the airport but then they pointed the nose of the trusted plane south and soon found the themselves aselve s over the city of panguitch with a seriously dimin diminished shed gasoline supply the only thing they could do was to pick out a suitable landing field and they discovered that such was not an easy task however they did come down and made a beautiful three point boint landing although reports say they did have a little trouble in bringing the craft to a stop in time to avoid colliding with a house barn and some miscellaneous livestock but from that time on the situation became more complicated with the extra weight of the gasoline it was doubtful whether they could again get into the higher strata of ozone with only a very short runway first mr tanner took off alone to test tes t the rubw runway ay after doing this intuition told him to come home and return for his fellow flyers with on an automo bile but no he landed again and the three piled in for the last trip in half of our air fleet first thoy they jumped a ditch then they cleared all but the top strand of a barbed wire fence and finally they contacted the ground with such force that our good pilot mr tanner and our good mechanic and student pilot mr hartle took to the air without the benefit of a motor of course their flights last long mr tucker stayed with the craft and the only damage of consequence was to the fleet the motor hurt the fue was salvaged and a part of t the he wings B but ut it will be a long hard job to again bring our air fleet up to full strength |
