AVIATION NEWS
Flying a D.H. Moth aeroplane with a Cirrus engine, Mr. A. Brown, secretary of the Hawkes Bay Aero Club, arrived at Eongotai about 9.30 this morning, accompanied by a passenger. They will return North to-morrow. Good work has been done with the repairing of Mr. F. C. Norton's Avro aeroplane which was damaged at the Wanganui airport at the time of the last Wangatiui races (reports "The Chronicle"). The fore end of tlie body was chielly damaged, and that portion has now been reconstructed. The engine will be used, as it suffered very little damage. The machine is the one in which C. T. P. Ulm made his first solo flight. Kingsford Smith has alßo handled the controls,
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1931, Page 10
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120AVIATION NEWS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1931, Page 10
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