HOLIDAY IN CLOUDLAND

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1926, Page 3

HOLIDAY IN CLOUDLAND

NOVEL TOUR BY PEER’S SON AND WIFE.

After a five days’ aerial holiday, or. which they ignored aerodromes and landed on fields or on sands, the Master of Sempill and his wife flew back to London recently. Usually, at the end of a day’s travel, the wings of tlieir machine—a Moth light ’plane—have been folded back, and she has been wheeled into a shed or farmyard for the night. Petrol and oil consumption has worked out at not more than Id a mile. In the machine they carried two small suitcases and a spare till of petrol. At Aberystwyth, after landing on the sands, Colonel Sempill folded the ligh' ’plane’s wings and wheeled it up street, with people looking out in astonishment from windows. He housed the machine in the yard of an hotel. Another landing on the sands was made at Instow, North Devon, whew Colonel Sempill obtained petrol from a motor-garage. At Morchar Bishop, Cornwall, the aircraft was guided down into a field and wheeled into a farmyard, Colonel and Mrs Sempill staying the night with friends at a negihbouring country house. A golf links near Cheltenham provided another alighting point, and at Broadway (Worcestershire) the Moth, with its wings folded, was housed for the night in a barn. BETTER. THAN MOTORING.

Mrs Sempill declared after she had lauded that she had found the aerial holiday far more pleasant than any motor-car four.

“ Flying is cleaner and much less tiring,” she said. “You also have the eliarm of seeing the earth from a bird’seye view-point. i “Tlie noise of the small engine driving the Both did not bother me in the least. It just made a constant humming that I found rather restful. I took everything I wanted with me ir tlie aeroplane, including an evenin' -

gown. “The weather v( is glorious, and everyone was most kind, and helpful Of course we could not just drop or to any Field, for it is about tlie woist time of the year, from the farmers’ i point of view, for people to laud cn bis fields. “But the farmers were extremely kind and took a great deal of interest in our trip. A crowd usually gathered round us when we landed, and lielpoc us with the machine, but it was really just as easv to manage it ourselves. CLOUD SCENERY. “Flying 8000 feet up on the way to Avonmouth we passed through some beautiful cloud scenery. Only occasional glimpses of the land were caught, hut tlie clouds were magnificent.” Tlie master of Sempill. who is thirtythree, is the eldest son of the eighteenth Baron Semnill, and married the daughter of Sir John Invery, the art-

ist. , He joined the Royal Flying Corps in August 1914, and rose to tho rank of colonel. ti 6 was asked by Japan to undertake the organisation and equipment of her naval air service.