This picture is of Messrs Maurice Baker, left, and E. W. Ombler of Wellington. ,who on August 29 broke the New Zealand record for petrol engined Model Aeroplanes with a flight of 25 minutes 36 2-5 seconds, at Masterton. The plane landed at Carterton on the roof of the grandstand at the Race Course, from which it fell to the ground, It is known as a "Turner Special" and is powered with a Baby Cyclone engine. The flight was a practice one preparatory to the "Power Chief Championship, 1937," which ls to be coutested shortly.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 9
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95This picture is of Messrs Maurice Baker, left, and E. W. Ombler of Wellington. ,who on August 29 broke the New Zealand record for petrol engined Model Aeroplanes with a flight of 25 minutes 36 2-5 seconds, at Masterton. The plane landed at Carterton on the roof of the grandstand at the Race Course, from which it fell to the ground, It is known as a "Turner Special" and is powered with a Baby Cyclone engine. The flight was a practice one preparatory to the "Power Chief Championship, 1937," which ls to be coutested shortly. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 9
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