HOME-MADE 'PLANE.
LONG FLIGHT COMMENCED.
AN AMBITIOUS UNDERTAKING
(United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) PARIS, September 14.
Lettish officer, M. Cukuns, is flying to Gambia in a home-mad© aeroplane, the engine of which he bought in an old iron market at Riga. It belonged to a British aeroplane shot down ini 1916.
He built the 'plane without assistance and used wood, steel and conyas, occupying four years. He flew from Riga to Paris without trouble ' and then resumed his flight.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 287, 15 September 1933, Page 5
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82HOME-MADE 'PLANE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 287, 15 September 1933, Page 5
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