GLIDING

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Year
1931
Reference
F7895
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1931
Reference
F7895
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Duration
0:11:38

Study of young gannets learning to fly at Cape Kidnappers. Club buildings. Glider construction activities. Balancing practice in face of wind. Two club gliders - two-seater Dickson glider mainly used for ground training. Showing safety harness and working of release hook - airspeed indicator on tow-wagon. Ground exercises and ground hop followed by learners’ straight flight and landing. A flight by the heavy ground trainer. Notice the sudden decent after release due to high sinking speed. Next you see the trailer used to transport gliders. Rigging the glider - towing the glider to testing point. Start of the B certificate test (60 seconds normal flight after release from towrope, at approximately 400’, including S turns and good landing.) Model section’s activities. “Bully Idea”, Mr Bullivant’s idea of manpower flight using flipping wings. Tests carried out in secrecy early morning proved unsuccessful. Building a new higher performance machine - rigging - and its first flight. Flight over Napier and back to field is faked but taken at the same time from a visiting light plane from Te Kuiti.