AERODROME IN GARDEN
Revolutionary helicopter light aeroplanes able to alight in an area as small as an ordinary lawn tennis court arc now being tested in London. Six light planes fitted with revolving wings are being built as an experiment by Captain G. de Havilland, the designer of the big D.H. Napier airliner, the first aeroplane specially designed for commercial purposes. It is claimed that these helicopter planes will revolutionise private flying. At present an owner-pilot is faced with the necessity of either constructing a private landing ground or motoring some distance from his home to an aerodrome. Equipped with the new helicopter plane he will in future be able to use a patch of lawn about the size of a lawn tennis court as his aerodrome. The new revolving wing light planes will seat three people in a totally enclosed saloon.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21612, 6 April 1932, Page 11
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