WONDER ’PLANE
SUCCESS OF SYDNEY AVIATOR’S DESIGN DESCRIBED AS "WITHOUT VICES.” United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 16, 7 p.m.) LONDON, March 16. Edgar Percival, of Sydney, flew the new Gull monoplane designed by himself at Gravesend, when all other machines kept to the ground owing to a gale. The ’plane, which had never been flown before, behaved wonderfully well. It has been described “as without vices,” a rare thing in hitherto untested aircraft. With the wind the ’plane approached a speed of 255 miles per hour.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19750, 17 March 1934, Page 17
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