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Winds Force Glider Pilot To Change His Destination

(New Zealand Press Association)

BLENHEIM, April 26. A well-known glider pilot, Mr Keith Wakeman, who recently made gliding history by being the first man to pilot a glider over the Southern Alps, arrived at Omaka airfield, Blenheim, this afternoon. But, if everything had gone to schedule, he should have been at Invercargill. It he had made the flight he intended, he would have won his “diamond distance” badge. He cast off from his tow plane south of the Hurunui river early this afternoon but found that

wind conditions were? not what he had been told to expect. Instead of northerlies he found southerlies so he took the line of least resistance and came north instead of south. He reached a maximum of 14,050 feet. He said on landing at Omaka that he had taken a longing look at the North Island. A flight across Cook Strait will be another “famous first” to the pilot who achieves it.

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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 10

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Winds Force Glider Pilot To Change His Destination Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 10

Winds Force Glider Pilot To Change His Destination Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 10

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