FIRST FLIGHT
WHITNEY STRAIGHT PLANE 'Carrying a film of the Coronation which arrived from England today,1 the new Miles Whitney Straight aeropfeme left Rongotai on its first flight at 0.15 this morning for New Plymouth. Flight-Lieutenant I. E. Rawnsley, instructor of the Wellington Aero Cltib, was the pilot and Mr. C. W. Roots: a passenger. From New Plymouth the machine will go to Auckland and continue on to Gisborne, Hastings, and back to Wellington.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1937, Page 10
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74FIRST FLIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1937, Page 10
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