A NEW ÆROPLANE.
(Per ' Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A young resident of Addington; employed m the raihvay department, and at present .acting-fireman on" the Rangit ora line, Avho has been experimenting with Hying machines, has constructed a model of an aeroplane. It has tAvo rows of small planes^ Avith 15; m each toav, and looked at from above or bcloAv it resembles a diamond shapo from -which the top. and bottom points-have been cut off, .leaving six sides: •: Thte; .young- v'-Cx-pcrimonter has selected, his model otiit bf six that, hevtripd. He says that he rcckonsi' to get considerably more lifting power out of it than gui be obtiiicnd from biplanes of the same dimensions 110AV m use, and that it will be lighter and stronger, than those noAV built, will riot be so Avide, 'and Avill tiikc up s less space. A AA-orkingniachine Avould bo driven by a 50 h.p, engine and Ayould have lavo propellors.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12096, 14 March 1910, Page 5
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157A NEW ÆROPLANE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12096, 14 March 1910, Page 5
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