MODEL AEROPLANE NOTES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 50, 15 March 1937, Page 8

MODEL AEROPLANE NOTES

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New Incentives to Good Work ATTAIN PERFECTI0N

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As recently as the last three weeks the Herald-Tribune columns have ccntained plenty of news which should be particularly interesting to readers of these notes. Aircraft pactories all over the world are experiencing difficulties in obtaining sufficient craftsmen to complete crders for civil aud military planes. Australian interests propo&e to eombine in building and equipping an ajrcraft training centre which will be able to train sufficient pilots, ground englneers, and riggers to supply the demand in Australia for these inen, It is stated that the shortage is already senous. Negotiations are much further advanced for the early establishment of bases for the flying-boat service between America and New Zealand and oui: own Prime Minister has publicly stated his desire also to have an all-British flying boat service connecting this Dominion with other parts of the Empire, as soon as is practicable. Then, not many days ago a speaker at a club meeting in Napier was reported as sayiug that this country was the only one which did not have a network of airways. He had just re« turned from overseas and quite evidently had beon converted to the usability and safety of aircraft for everyday needs. A Wellington business man with many business adtivities in all parts of New Zealand has purchased a plane for his individual use. That is only some of the news relating to the flying industry. One other pieee is worthy of special mention. In Australia . a proposal has been made that aircraft" oi British design should be made in Australia owing to the pre&ent and probable future difficulty experienced by British factories in meeting the demands from Australia, New Zealand and P'dia, for all aircraft. "AsSembly" has oiten suggested that this would be the next step towards progress in this heimisphere and is pieased to see that the probability is so much nearer. A Boon to Ch Idren Very few right-minded persous tould doubt the vaiue of modei aeronautica in bringing torward the talents possessed by the younger ' ones, which wouiU be useful in heiping parents to be rightly guided when settling their children in the right activities. They will not all take up aviation, but the mental exercise necessary in successtully building models is of wonderful value in showing the builder how to tackle all other activities. There is a world-wide desire to progress to som«thing more constructive than the wars and national bickerings of the past and we now have the opportunity to take our part in progressing constructively. The aeroplane and the wireless seem to the writer to be the greatest advances towards tha.t goal and we each can do our part in meeting the need which is only too evident for centres of training, financial heip and greatest of all an active and intelligent interest in the doings of the young worker. Tliere is still a great need for those who are already interested in modei building to group together and build up club centres. Perfection is the principle of all things and is very clearly eeen * in modellists' expenences. When a modei is built and tried out there are so many adjustments necessary after successive trial riights before the first successful flight, that we soon realise that it is only when we eliminate all error that Jive can hope for success, and that is our nearest step to perfection. Cet-Together SPIrit So, in forming groups clubs the need will be seen for club members to work in liarmony and to co-operate to produce perfection in all its doings. If there is an early crash just get together and mend things as you would in rebuilding a crashed modei — strengthen weak places, re-design badly placed features, cut out unnecessary things — but put in sufficient power to lift the modei (in this instance your club) a step or two higher. Remember that no plane will fly if all members built into it are working at sixes and sevens. Likewise, no club can function unless it is properly powered and all its members are functioning in their right spheres. Above all keep clearly in though that whatever you build is constructed from material in hand but only from from ideas in mind which you build into something with them, therefore they are thoughts externalissd and so you individually can achieve most by trying out your thoughts in constructive activities and when the errors are -seen as such and eliminated by right reasoning, your modei, your club, or whatever thought is building, will rise on the solid foundation of right reasoning and you will hace prepared for a further advance in your hobby, life, work, or recreation, • whichever this activity means to you. • 8a nd In Yeur News. "Assembly" sends out as. S.O.S. to club secretaries and club captains to keep him supplied with up-to-date reports of their club activities and everythings else of interest to readers of this column.