DOMINION'S AEROPLANE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1935, 18 December 1913, Page 4

DOMINION'S AEROPLANE.

■,' v propeller arriving. Tiioso desirous of seeing Die New Zealand Government gift aeroplane soaring over Wellington, are not likely to have ■their wish fulfilled for some little tiilio. At present the aeroplane lies whore it was stored oil arrival some two months, ago, in the Defence Stores, liucklo ■Street;. 1$ is yet minus a propeller, but this all-important part is exneeted to arrive in W olliiißton by the Taimii (hie' on Ppociiiber 23. It v/ili probably come out in cold storage, a process rendered necessary to prevent the wood buckling in tl;e heat of tile Tropics. No spare parts have been supplied with tho aeroplane, and although a cable nwssiijjo ims been sent Home on behalf or tjie authorities for a catalogue-of price# for spare parts, no reply has yet oeen received from the manufacturers. Tho aeroplane seems destined to be in desuetude for a eoiisiderabh? time yot. It is stated, that it is.not a.machine which can lie used by' aeronauts Hi the learning stap;e, as it is so highly powered that, upon starting, it attain® a speed of 50 miles an hour, a rato wr.ic.i only experienced airmen would find smtabio .