OFF THE BEATEN TEACK
MR. CHICHESTER AT HOME
LONDON, 25th November. It is a fascinating game, and the best way of seeing the world imaginable," said Mr. F. C. Chichester, of Wellington, who began flying in 1927. Mr. Chichester came to England and" bought a Moth, in which he has been flying over the Continent preparatory to longer flights. He told the "Sun" that air touring gets oS the beaten tracks. "You see real people, not show places. lam unable to navigate, and use maps and railway lines. I land where suitable. I fly alone to please myself. I couia spend years circumnavigating the world like that. It is perfectly safe. I do not get lost, and I do not lose interest J.he trouble is passports and the authorities' interference. As soon as the plane lands anywhere, however remote, I am surorunded by Customs, police, and military, all demanding my papers. I was forced to land in a remote corner of Eumania, near the Eussian border, whereupon I was immediately arrested as a Bolshevik spy and be shot- 1 ha<l the great«at difficulty in establishing my bona fides as nobody there had ever heard of New Zealand."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 129, 27 November 1929, Page 11
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197OFF THE BEATEN TEACK Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 129, 27 November 1929, Page 11
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