LIGHT AEROPLANES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18232, 17 November 1924, Page 13

LIGHT AEROPLANES.

$ CHEAPER THAN MOTOR-CARS. ■ It is expected that light aeroplanes ! that cost less than tho average motorI car, and built in Australia, should' fc ! on tho Australian market within a few ', years, if the experiments now being : carried out result in any success. The i machines will cost approximately £3OO. ; Thero will he 10 light aeroplanes in the ; tests at the coming -Sev South AY ales | Aerial Derby. Three have been imported i by the Government • from Britain. The , other seven are being built in Austra- ■ Ha, and five are in course of construcI tion in the Sydney district. j Captain W. Percival, late of the Aus- | tralian Flying Corpus, is building a machine in a garage in Pitt street, to the design of Mr H. E. Broadsmith, techni--1 cal adviser and designer to the Depart--1 ment of Civil Aviation. The machine, | which will be flown by Captain Percival ■j in the competition, will be fitted with i an imported; British twin-cylinder enj gine of 10 li.p. Captain H. Itoss is ! building two aeroplanes, also to the dei Sign of Mr Broadsmith, in Sydney. Each of the three machines designed by Mr Broadsmith is a different type, and i will demonstrate special features from | the scientific standpoint. Captain Ross's machines will fce fitted with an engine j of 7 b.h.p. To his own deuign, Captain. I ltol>ei-fc Jteict is building a. light niai chine, which will be fitted witfe ; » ' similar engine to those of Captain Ross. Iteid's machine is being.put.together under his personal supervision, m Sydney. ■■. The most interesting «%**'* JJthat bv Mr H. Jones, of Bydc, <> m ot : ehanic with the A"' *«?* £"£* Jf , ! Avar, and was rewarded ?£ *Pf J "J with the aid of hfs wife and fatner, ne ' hi\ ™wtri»s*d « UiM aeroplane in the : has OTWtracwo » kv designed i ' *ak *Uo cJesfened sud .mado wholly by 1 IbimsSt It is a aix-cyßuder of peculiar ; v ■■'"'. '. if , *-,-■■. . ■■ x. '-■ ■ ■ -■■■

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