THE CHINA MAIL; OCTOBER 8, 1988.
UNLUCKY LLEWELLYN DIES
PIN CRASHAA
London, September 22. Flying-Officer David (“Unlucky?) Llewellyn lived for flying; last night he died for it.
He crashed near Lympne, Kent, while instructing, a pupil, Lieut- enant J. B. Kitson, Royal Horse Guards, who also died from injuries..
Since saying good-bye to record flight attempts in the autumn of 1937, Llewellyn had been chief instructor at Lympne, where he had put many R.A.F. officers through their elementary training.
hurt, was breathing. He was taken to the aerodrome: hospital.
Mrs. Charles Godden, who lives jat Mill House, Lympme, at the cor- ner of the field where the 'plane crashed, said:
"I was just putting back my chair to the wall after tea and, looking out of the window. I saw the 'plane divé straight into the ground, where it bounced over. I screamed for help."
Mrs. Godden's son, Charles, said: "I ran across the field with my sis- ter Vera at my heels yelling, Run, run before it catches fire.
Fog had hung over Lympne "I grabbed the fire extinguisher throughout yesterday, but in the and other people came rushing up evening the weather improved, and from all directions.” Llewellyn decided to take off with Kitson.
WIFE HIS INSPIRATION :
Llewellyn, who was thirty-four, lived at Berwick Cottage Lympne. He leaves a widow and a boy aged eleven. He was the only son of William sevent-four-year-old Sir
After completing a half circle of the aerodrome at a height of about 150ft. the machine nose-dived into a field facing the aerodrome.
The accident was seen by the Air Llewellyn, President of the Royal Ministry staff, who rushed an am-Academy. bulance to the scene.
Mrs. Margot Llewellyn was the of her husband's
Llewellyn was dead, with terrible |inspiration injuries, but Kitson, although badly. Continued at foot of Next Col.
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record-attempt flights, always en- October, 1935, but a clogged oil couraging him, helping him in every filter forced him to return.
Way,
on
A month later, however, with Mrs. Jill Wyndham, blonde wife of a naval commander, he broke Army Mollison's Cape record, doing the trip in just over 6% days.
It was she who saw to his food supplies when he set off; it was she who smiled and said "Good luck" with a lump in her throat 28 she watched him leave flights from which he might Llewellyn planned to fly the At- never return.
lantic, but the 'plane crashed and Not once but several times did he was in hospital for two months Llewellyn crash or make forced as a result of his injuries. landings on record attempts. So Llewellyn had planned to fly to much so that he earned the name Mauritius this month with Mile. of Unlucky Llewellyn,
ANOTHER FLIGHT
France Planel, aged twenty-three.
She was married on Tuesday at Twickenham, Middlesex where she But his courage gained' him an-livès, to a distant relation, Mi Jean other title Try Again Llewellyn Planel, a lyric writer
for when folled in attempts to Yesterday, just before she heard
fight. of Llewellyn's death, she had de- Cape-England records he said. cided to cancel.
bisutenant Kitaon, who was “Never mind, I'll try again."
nephew of Lord Royal He
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Llewellyn's unluckiest year-his twenty-three, “hoodoo" year, he called it was Strathco 1987. Time and again he failed by lived sheer bad luck to smash the record adve for the Cape-England flight.
He attempted the Cape record in flyln
He took
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