NEW HONEYMOON PLANE

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12095, 24 March 1925, Page 9

NEW HONEYMOON PLANE

KEPT IN ORDINARY GARAGE. Housed in an ordinary garage, and mantaiiK'd as easily as a motor-car, a new aerial runabout is now being constructed that will bring appreciably nearer the era of flying for all. This new biplane is to be fitted with an engine, of simple design, developing about 60 h.p. This will give the baby ’plane a speed of a mile and ahalf a minute. As a week-end runabout it will be useful, and a flight from London to Paris could be made without a stop. Designed, in part, as a training craft, the machine will be fitted with dual cqptrol mechanism. This is in the passenger’s cockpit; but when the machine is used for a week-end or a honeymoon trip the apparatus can be removed and in its place about 501 b of luggage stowed. The wings can be folded back against the cabin in three minutes, and the ."idth of the ’plane is then only 10ft. The under-carriage is designed to absorb the shocks, without damage, of the worst landings. “Our chief idea in the production of this new type of machine,” recently said an official of the De Haviland Company, “is the provision of a small aeroplane which is easy to fly, cheap in first and operating cost, and is capable of being looked after by the own-er-pilot.”