ENTERPRISING LAD.
BUILT HIS OWN PLANE. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 12.15 p.m., to-day. \MNXaPKG, June 14. Jimmy Kellen, aged fourteen, soared fifty feet in tlie air in a ’plane of his own invention, after two - years’ efforts. Tlie machine landed in the R.ed River. Kellen was fished out alive by teh fire brigade. Tlie engine was built of material taken piecemeal from a motor scrap heap.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 15 June 1928, Page 9
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73ENTERPRISING LAD. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 15 June 1928, Page 9
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