MODEL 'PLANE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 136, 10 June 1936, Page 20

MODEL 'PLANE.

SIX FEET IN LENGTH. FLIGHT AT MANGERE. Built by two members of the Auckland Model Aeroplane Club, Messrs. I. Chinnery Brown and F. Mac Donald, a model aeroplane, said to be the largest yet flown in the Dominion, made a successful flight at the Mangere Aerodrome on Sunday afternoon. The machine is omy six feet long, weighs but six and threequarter pounds, and is driven by a petrol engine developing one-fifth horse-power. The cylinder is about the size of the average thumb of a man, and the propeller is driven at COOO revolutions a minute. The machine took nearly 12 months to build and is capable 011 a full tank of making a flight of half an hour's duration. On Sunday the model behaved splendidly and at a height of 70ft circled the aerodrome. When exhibited at the recent Waikato Winter Show the model created considerable interest. Following are the results of competitions conducted at the last meeting of the Auckland Model Aero Club:— Novice.—B* S. Stormont, 49 3-ss, 1; E. Rose, t4Bs, 2; J. Waldie, 40 l-ss, 3. Open H.L. —W. B. Mackley, lm 58 2-ss, 1; K. Downey, lm 49 3-ss, 2; A. Sykes, lm 40s, 3. Handicap H.L. —K. Downey, 2m 31 3-ss, 1; R. E. Allen, 2m 21s, 2; E. Rose, 2m 0 3-ss, 3.