TASMAN ASPIRANT.
BARRISTER- FLIER’S SECRET. ACTIVITY.
WILL HiEl TRY IT? MELBOURNE, Aug. 26. Croat secrecy is being .observed at the Larkin Aircraft Company's assembling works at the Kssendon aerodrome regarding the refitting of the Sop with ’plane known \as the “Bower Bird,’’ and which origin ally was “The. Wallaby.”
It is reported that the machine was leeentlv sold to Mr. El. E. Davies, barrister, “of Swan Hill, who .already ha.s one ’plane, and uses it an his profession, to fly from one town to another Mr. Davies was a war pilot-, and has since been an enthusiastic flier.
It m irumouired that he intends to use the “Bower Bird” in. an effort' to. fly from Australia, to New Zealand. The machine is already fitted with a 200-galilon. petrol tank, the original tank usgd on the late. Harry Hawker’s machine, when that aviator attempted a. flight from. England to America.. The Larkin Aircraft Company i.s ad-l-ing another tank to the machine, which will then have a capacity of 300 gallons enough to take it to New Zealand with a sufficient margin of safety. The reconditioned machine is to he ready fo-r delivery to its new owner on September i‘2.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 September 1927, Page 7
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198TASMAN ASPIRANT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 September 1927, Page 7
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