A MODEL AEROPLANE.
Built of strip, or cane, round a matchbox cover support and covered with silk or greaseproof paper, this model 'plane can bo put together in a short time ■will fly over fifty yards quite easily. The ■ undercarriage can be dispensed with. Us® good tube glue for joining. All s P ar joints can be securely fixed by using small bindings of gummed tape. >
The propeller, made by sticking blades of thin wood at a slight angle in opposite sides of a section of cork, is ne- , secured through the pencil-stump eai by making a paper clip axle winch J crook at one end for the clastic a passed into tlie centra for the prop , cork and bent over to hold. Othei • of elastic, which is about 20m. , tied round bottom of front rudder p •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)
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137A MODEL AEROPLANE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)
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