POPULAR FLYING
WILL IT RIVAL THE MOTORCAR?
CHANCE TO DETERMINE ANSWER.
It is still a debatable point whether, with equally cheap equipment and upkeep as well as mileage, flying can ever rival motoring in general popularity. The answer probably depends on how far the element of greater rldk ean be eliminated. So far there is no sign that road risks, which are neither inconsiderable nor lack advertisement, have in Any way hampered the spread of the car vogue. We may soon be able to determine what the true answer to this problem is. There is now on the market, and being demonstrated over a three-thousand-mile circuit, a new plane for which remarkable Claims are made. It can be bought on hirepurchase terms, flown, insured, and housed, all for about £2 a week. It can land or take off in a small field, and its 10 h.p. engine is said to be as easily kept in good order as a small car’s. It has a top speed of SO miles an hour, a cruising Speed of 70, and costs half-a-crown an hour to fly.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 365, 20 February 1937, Page 8
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183POPULAR FLYING Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 365, 20 February 1937, Page 8
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