AERIAL STUNTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19041, 15 June 1936, Page 10

AERIAL STUNTS

ARE MACHINES DAMAGED?

A PROBLEM FOR CLUES

The advisability of using club aeroplanes for aerobatic instruction and practice was considered at a meeting of the Western Federated Flying Club at New Plymouth* The likelihood of increased maintenance cost of machines was referred to, and it. was decided to seek authoritative information as to whether a machine suffered as a result of aerobatic hying. Flying ..Officer lan Keith, the club"s instructor, in a report, said he considered that, a knowledge of certain manoeuvres was nccesary, and for that reason he taught looping, spuming, and stall turns.

If the Western Federation pilots had taken the same care of the machines as other club pilots had, the Hying fees would have been reduced to 18s an hour, said Mr. S. E. Nielson, secretary of the club.

"We have to consider whether the club is a flying circus or a club to train a greater number of pupils in orduiary safe flying," said Mr. iSielson, who did not favour instruction in aerobatics for the benefit of a few of the more venturesome pilots at the risk of the machines. If pilots wanted to do aerobatics they should purchase their own aeroplanes. If the authorities said that no harm was done to the machines the club would bo more or less committed to permit aerobatics.