’PLANE FOR TASMAN FLIGHT
CONSTRUCTION AT SYDNEY. MOSMAN AIRMAN AS PILOT. (United tress Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) ■SYDNEY, May 24. Mr L. J. R. Jones, aeronautical lecturer at the technical college, has designed and built a high-wing monoplane for a Tasman flight to New Zealand, says the “Sun.” The ’plane will be piloted by Mr R. Mitchell, Mosman. The machine is fitted with a 110 h.p. Harkness-Hornet engine locally made. In test flights it disclosed remarkable speed and climbing qualities. It is being fitted with, special mind-flying instruments and extra tanks for petrol so that the plane will have a range of 1500 miles.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 25 May 1932, Page 5
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104’PLANE FOR TASMAN FLIGHT Hawera Star, Volume LI, 25 May 1932, Page 5
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