The recent paragraph of “howlers” prompts a teacher to send the latest additions to his collection: “Minx is a lady native of the Isle of Man. "Sundries are those goods that can be bought on the Sabbath.” "Goblet is the name for a wee turkey.”
Instead of the long run needed by the ordinary aeroplane in taking off, the autogiro plane with its horizontal windmill or rotor requires only a run of forty feet or so, while it descends almost vertically.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1938, Page 7
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