TASMAN FLIGHT
IN SYDNEY BUILT PLANE. RANGE OF 1500 MILES SYDNEY, May 24. The “Sun” says that Mr L. J. R. Jones, aeronautical lecturer at the Technical College, has designed and built a monolpane for a Tasman flight to New Zealand, piloted by Mr R. Mitchell, of Mosman.
The machine is fitted with a 110 horse power Harkness Hornet engine locally made. In test flights it disclosed remarkable speed and climbing qualities.
It is now being fitted with special blind flying instruments, also extra tanks for petrol so that the plane will have a range of 1500 miles.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 128, 25 May 1932, Page 3
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