NORTH ISLAND AIR PAGEANT
Hawke's Bay and East Coast Cluh's Representation TW0 PLANES T0 00 An official representatiom ■>of two club machines and. five pilots will be the quota of the Hawke 's Bay and East Coast Aero Club at the North' Island air pageant to be held at the Wanganui Airport on Saturday. Pilots from praetically every club in the Dominion are to be present. The personnel of the Hawke 'a Bay representation will be Messrs R. D. Brown, A. W. Britton, W. Krogh and E. A. Barker and Miss I. Eield. Two of the" club's machines, the ZK-ABB, piloted by Mr Britton, and the ZK-ABK, piloted by Mr Brown, will be taking part in the competitions. The former wiU leave to-morrow for Wanganui and the latter on Saturday morning, both returning to Hastings on Sunday morning. In addition, it is anticipated that Mr H. P. D. van Ashe will also be present at the pageant in the new two-cn-gined monospar which is now being aJissembled by the New Zealand Aerial Mapping Co., at Hastings. The competitions at the pageant lnclude that for the Bledisloe Trophy which is open to A pilots for airmanship, navigation and landings; The Gloucester Trophy for navigation aud open to B licence pilots; the Herald Trophy for A endorsed licence pilots and non-professional B licence pilots; a silver cup for bombing by A endorsed and B licence pilots; a silver cup for aerobatics by club-trained pilots; a trophy for the ladies' landing compelition; and a silver cup for the junlor landing competition. During the afternoon three parachute descents will be made by Mr C. Pegley, a New Zealand trained parachutist. A display of aerobatici3 will also be given. * An interesting item should be the demonstration of radio control. A machine equipped with radio will be sent aloft and its pilot will be direeted as to his manoeuvres from the ground by radio. An educational event will be the parade of individual types in which event a machine of each type represented at the pageant will be sent aloft and details of the machine broadcast over the loud speaker.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 41, 4 March 1937, Page 6
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