THE FOURTH AEROPLANE

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 36, 14 March 1930, Page 7

THE FOURTH AEROPLANE

ARRIVES IN HASTINGS. H.B. AERO CLUB'S PURCHASE. Yesterday afternoon the Hawke's Bay Aero Club secured its fourth aeroplane, in the form of a Gypsy Moth, which arrived at the Longlands aerodrome from Sockburn. The new Moth was piloted from Sockburn by Flying-Officer Olsen, who had Mr Dudley Newbigin as a passenger. They made a splendid flight over the Straits, despite the presence of heavy clouds, and yesterday morning left Wellington at 10 o'clock. A call was made at Martinborough, but despite this break, Hastings was reached a few minutes to one o' clock. The journey. from Sockburn to Wellington took two hours and 20 minutes. The Moth is an entirely new machine of the latest type, and is now housed with the original Moth and the two Spartan planes. The first Moth is now undergoing a complete overhaul, which should be completed next week, and the Hastings fleet of four 'planes will then be ready for the air. They will all be participating in the Aero pageant which takes place in Hastings on April 5. The club's three other planes will "no doubt be in evidence at the aerodrome to-morrow afternoon, when at 3.30 o'clock, Captain Jonassen, the "king of the air,'' will present his thrilling parachute descent from a height of 3000 feet, and will also indulge in some startling aerobatics whilst suspended from a 'plane in the air.