LONG FLIGHT ATTEMPTED IN AMATEUR 'PLANE
(Press Assn.-
BUILT SINGLE-HANDED
— By Telegraph— Copyrigbt.).
Paris, Sept. 14. A Lettish officer, Cukuns, is flying to Gambia (West Africa), in a homemade aeroplane, whose engine ^ he hought in an old iron-market at Riga. It belonged t0 a British aeroplane which was shot down in 1916. Cukuns built the machine unaided, of wood, steel and canvas, occupying four years. He flew from Riga tq Paris without trouble and then resumed his fiight to Gambia.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 638, 16 September 1933, Page 5
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80LONG FLIGHT ATTEMPTED IN AMATEUR 'PLANE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 638, 16 September 1933, Page 5
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