MODEL AEROPLANES.
On Saturday afternoon the Auckland Model Aeroplane Club held a flight meeting at Three Kings, when visitors from Hamilton and Te Aroha witnessed some fine flying. A new club record for hand-launch<;a solid balsa gliders was made by M. U Mavn, with a glide of 275 seconds. In the powered classes good flights or round the two-minute mark were consistently made. There were no ascending air currents, so no soaring flights were recorded. Kesults :— Glider* —L. r. Mayn 1. I. ChinneryBrown 2. W. B. Mackley 3. „''..„ Open Duration.—L. R. Mayn 1, H. R. Reynolds 2, C. Allen 3. Fuselage (rise off ground).—w. B. Mackley 1, G. M. I'erkins 2. The niectiug was conducted under the rules of (he New Zealand Model Aeroplane Association, the judge being Mr. If. C. Mncdonald.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 141, 17 June 1935, Page 3
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