IMPRESSIVE TRIALS
New Percival Gull Plane SEARCHING TEST IN GALE (Received March 16, 7 p.m.) London, March 16. Mr. Edgar Percival, Sydney, flew the new Gull monoplane designed by himself at Gravesend when all other machines kept to the ground owing to a gale. The plane, which had never been flown before, behaved wonderfully well, and was described as being without vices, a rare thing in hitherto untested aircraft. With the wind it approached 255 miles an hour. Mr. Percival is a well-known English private owner, who has had a very wide experience of flying. During the war he served with both the British and Australian flying corps. After the war he had a successful career as a commercial pilot in Australia, and later returned to England. He was the designer of the Percival Gull in which Sir Charles Kingsford 'Smith broke the England-Australia record in November last. This machine has a top speed of 145 m.p.h. with a Gipsy Major engine, and 160 m.p.h. with a Napier Javelin engine. No details of the new machine have reached New Zealand.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 146, 17 March 1934, Page 7
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