New Zealand Sport Flying Magazine
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NEW ZEALAND SPORT FLYING - Summer 2013
The magazine of the SPORT AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION NZ (Inc)
FRONT COVER: Tim Galpin (front seat) and Neville Worsley fly the Galpin family's restored Rearwin Sportster, the only airworthy example in the southern hemisphere. Front cover story on page 10.
Photograph © John King
CONTENTS
4 The Sport Flier's World
5 The Administrator's File
6 Landing Flares
7 Lithium-ion for aviation
10 Cover story: The minority from Kansas
15 A shower of sparks makes for quicker starts
16 Hickman Hangar: Pressures of work
17 Getting to a very good day
20 A new arrival
22 A lesser-known DH branch
23 Wedderburn visit
24 Great Plains 2013, Ashburton
27 God's Own Country
28 Enjoy your stalls!
31 A study in avian aerodynamics
Air mail
32 Record numbers at Black Sands
34 A petrol engine without a spark plug
35 Going the other way
36 Good weather heralds race return
40 Flight of the Midnight Blowfly Part 4
42 Aeroplane and plane
43 Around the Chapters: Bay of Plenty, Southland and Auckland
BACK COVER The general opinion among those at Great Plains 2013 was that John Best's recently completed - after a gestation covering almost three decades - Taylor JT2 Titch was a top contender for Grand Champion. The judges thought so too.
Photograph © John King