His Do-It-Yourselfer

Really Flies

Seen in the air here at Jackson’s Airport, Port Moresby, a “do-it-yourself” aircraft built by a New Guinea school rcher in his spare time.

published a close-up photo raph of it, together with a few nes about its builder —schooler A. P. Baglee—in the Sep ir issue, but that photograph ; prove that the thing could rhis one seems to. m boyhood, Mr. Baglee (who so well known in Fiji) has ?d to fly, but not until five ago did he begin to do any about it. He sent to Eng for plans of the Dart Kitten, en the plans arrived (the es were then living at Wau) he ged a shed as a workshop and 5 work, using carpentering skill ed from his father, who is a sr ne of the parts were ready , others he had to make. For ramework of the wings he used ecial spruce steaming it into , and covering the frame with :. (Mrs. Baglee went to work ;wing the seams!) Went With The Luggage t he was not able to finish aircraft at Wau. After two i working sparetime on it, he transferred to Port Moresby, was thus left with the problem icking up and shifting not only

the household crockery, linen and furniture but a half-completed aero plane. There are no roads between Wau and Port Moresby, in the end, the fuselage of the Kitten went along with the Baglees in a regular DC3 transport, and the wings followed on in another aircraft. . . _.

No Special Plans Port Moresby Mr. Baglee finished off his aircraft in the Papuan Aero Club’s hangar at Jackson’s, not far from Boroko school where he is headmaster.

November, after several months Qf i various te sts. the single-seater monoplane (painted bright yellow with black trimmings) was under going final DC A flight tests before receiving its Certificate of Airworthi ness. DCA seemed pleased with it.

Up then, Headmaster Baglee, who ho ids a pilot’s licence, had not flown his own aircraft, but he was hoping to soon.

He h as no special plans for the future of the plane he has so care fully and painstakingly bum.

Said his wife; 1 jjLntnrous is planning too many trips. I hope not. But’ y it—and build a larger one.

A. T. Baglee's new Dart Kitten is flight tested over Jackson's Airport, Port Moresby.