Carrying petrol sufficient for an hour and a half Hying, a model aeroplane driven by a petrol engine of one-fifth horse-power disappeared over Greymouth in the course of a Hight from Karoro airport, The plane was designed and built by’ Mr. W. Hogan, Uobden, ami weighed only 41b.> '.[’be engine was imported from the United States of America. The model had made several successful llights. It had been in the air more than 40 minutes when it disappeared in the clouds.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 94, 15 January 1940, Page 5
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