NEW AEROPLANE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 297, 30 November 1936, Page 5

NEW AEROPLANE.

Miles Hawk Trainer Ready For Tests. Wellington, To-day. The Miles Hawk Trainer machine, which was recently imported by the Wellington Aero Club for more advanced 'training of pilots than can be given .in Moths, has been assembled at Rongotai. It will probably be given test flights to-day. The machine is a low-wing monoplane with a performance and equipment in advance of the former standard training aircraft. It will be the first machine of its type in use for training in New Zealand, but four others are to be issued on loan to aero clubs by the Government. The machine has been fitted with the engine which bore the Miles Hawk flown by the late Squadron Leader M C. McGregor and Mr. 11. C. i Walker from Mildenhall to Melbourne in the air race in 1934. The engine has been thoroughly overhauled and new parts fitted where old showed signs of wear. The engine was given a ground test yesterday. The machine will be tested in flight by Squadron Leader G. L. Stedman. A Moth of the Western Federated Aero Club, used by that club for pupil-training at Wanganui, is at present being given an air-frame overhaul at Rongotai at ‘the aircraft assembly, repair, and maintenance establishment conducted theie by Mr. A. Brazier, formerly’ ground engineer to 'the Canterbury Aero Club and East Coast Airways, Ltd. It is expected that it will be about a fortnight before the machine is ready to return to Wanganui.