TWO NEW AEROPLANES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22936, 14 January 1938, Page 10

TWO NEW AEROPLANES

DELIVERY AT MANGERE BLIND-FLYING EQUIPMENT Delivery of two Tiger Moth aeroplanes was made yesterday to the Auckland Aero Club at Mange re, bringing the total of the club's serviceable aircraft to seven training machines and the Beechcraft four-passenger and ambulance aeroplane. Fitted with Gipsy-Major engines, which develop 130 horse-power, the new Moths have a cruising speed of 92 miles an hour, and because of their robust construction they are used extensively by the iltoyal Air Force for training pilots. One of the machinos is completely equipped for blind flying. There is a hood which encloses the pupil, and each cockpit is fitted with a fidl range of special instruments for this typo of flying. The same machine has a special inverted flying system, which makes it possible for the aeroplane to be flown upside down for a period of three minutes. The second machine is a standard model, and both will bo used for general, commercial and instrument training, in addition to preparing pilots for the Air Force and the civil aviation reserve. Orders were placed for the machines through the Air Survey and Transport Company, Hobsomille, last July, and they were imported from England. They were flown from Hobsonvvlle to Mangere at- mid-day yesterday and were immediately placed in service for training.