AEROPLANE LANDS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LV, Issue 5689, 7 June 1932, Page 2

AEROPLANE LANDS.

THE FIRST ON BANKS PENINSULA An event of importance to aviators I took place at Pgeon Bay on Thursday !la,st when the first aeroplane, a Moth, j owned iby Sir Bruce Stewart of Holimjeo' B:ay, landed on a ground- prepared . for the purpose behind M'r E. Hay's homestead. On the previ6us day Captaip Mercer of t'he Wigram Aerodrome, flaw down to the Bay and examined the landing, ground froni. the air. His report being favourable, the landing took place next t day. The ground'- chosen far alighting on is a sloping piece otf ground and this had >alli the, bumps taken out of it to give a good run. Tfc has been sown dawn, j Sir Bruce made an excellent landing, I repeating it'three times. , To take off j the, machine is l 'turned r'oiind and runs d'cwn hill. It i® said to be rather difficult for a machine -to land on I sloping ground as the machine iis iru- ; clined to noserdive as it runs up the ihill and when, the brakes are. applied. 'After a thorough, test of the ground Sir, Bruce ancl I.ady Stewart set off for Chris'tichurch. ,• I; , '; ; There were quite a, llarge numiber of iPigeon. Bay residents present ,to witness the 'Handing and although the Peninsula is. . very, hilly it" might be found l posisiible to land i'n other localities in the ditotridt; especially if silop ing. groamd Cam. be -