AIR "MOTOR CYCLE."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 103, 3 May 1935, Page 7

AIR "MOTOR CYCLE."

FLY IN A DAY.

COSTS HALF-PENNY A MIL*

(.Special.—By Air .Mail.)

LONDON, April 1:

I A now motor cycle of the air, v/iucli cost* only a halfpenny a mile to run, and can be mastered by a beginnei 111 a few hours, without dual instruction, was demonstrated here this week by Mr. Robert Kronfeld, the Austrian gliding ace. The new aerial motor cycles cost, at present, £275, but this price is likely to be reduced considerably when tho production increases. Fuel costs are less than 2/ an hour. The craft is powered with a conventional motor cycle engine. These 'planes are remarkably chcap to fly, and their comparatively low speed— 75 miles an hour is the maximum— makes them exceptionally safe for the beginner. The average person without any previous experience can take his license on this machine for £5. In the morning the pupil sits alone in the machine, starts up the engine, and with snort bursts of power rises a foot or so from the grass, until in the evening he is flying among the clouds! " AUCKLAND PUBLIC J-IBBAJRIi