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New Zealand Tablet, 13 May 1915, Page 22

The Taube aeroplane, which has so far done much betler service for Germany than the famous Zeppelins, was designed, curiously enough, from an idea obtained by its inventor, an Austrian millionaire named Ettrick, from the Zanonia tree of India. He saw that when the leaves of this type fell the wind carried them for miles, and he attributed this fact to the peculiar shape of the leaves. Apparently the phenomenon greatly impressed him, for he made the wings of the first Taube aeroplane like the Zanonia leaf, and the dove-like Taube now in use is only a slight modification of this design.