TASMAN FLIGHT IN BABY PLANE
Last Hop of Journey From Belgium
N.Z. PILOT LEAVES BRISBANE TO-DAY (Rec. 12.30 am.) BRISBANE. fOct. 7. "What’s all the fuss? There's nothing unusual in this," said the New Zealand airman Mr B. H. Newton, when he stepped from his baby aeroplane to-day after a 16-day flight from Belgium. The aeroplane .is single-engined, with a wingspan of about 30 feet, a length of 20 feet, and a height of less than six feet. Its 75-horse-power engine gives it a cruising speed of 110 to 120 miles an hour. On the flight one spark plug cracked and is now held together with adhesive tape. Mr Newton a former flight lieutenant in the R.N.Z.A.F.. intends to leave to-morrow on his longest hop, 1400 miles across the Tasman. He says that his aeroplane has a range of 1700 miles. Mr Newton could Dot get a sea passage home. He worked In a Belgian aircraft works . so that he could buy an aeroplane to fly to New Zealand.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25309, 8 October 1947, Page 7
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