AGRICULTURAL AIR SHOW

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28130, 20 November 1956, Page 23

AGRICULTURAL AIR SHOW

Plans For Display At Harewood A preview of the aerial top-dressing demonstration the Duke of Edinburgh will see during his Christchurch visit will be given at Harewood airport on Sunday afternoon. Operators from all over the South Island will give displays of aerial topdressing, supply • and fence-dropping and spraying techniques. Tiger Moths, still the mostcommonly used aircraft in agricultural aviation, Pipers, Taylorcraft, Fletchers, Austers, and Cessnas will fly during the afternoon. South Islanders will also have their first opportunity of seeing the Percival EP-9 and the Auster Agricola, both specially designed for New Zealand conditions. Arrangements are being made for low runs over the field by a Globemaster of the United States Air Force and demonstrations by helicopters of the United States Navy.

The Canterbury Aero Club will be giving aerobatic displays and offering joy-rides, and the National Airways

Corporation has been invited to provide short trips over the field and city in a DC-3. The display will benefit the funds of the Canterbury Gliding Club, and Mr S. H. Georgeson will fly the Weihe glider in which Mr Philip Wills broke the British gliding altitude record over Mount Cook. The Skylark II Mr Fred Dunn is building will also be on display. Operators taking part will be Air- . work (N.Z.), Ltd, Auster Air Services. Southland-Otago Aerial Topdressing Company, Aerial Work (Marlborough). Ltd., and Mr Keith Wakeman.