A NEW SPORT.
. SYDNEY, July 29. If one has reasonable intelligence and about £4O to spare, it is as simple in Sydney to-day to learn to fly as it is to learn to drive a motor-car or to play golf. Among the twenty or more pupils already enrolled in the new Flying Club established by the Aero Club are graziers, architects, estate agents, and a barrister. Seventy others are only awaiting tlie provision of the necessary facilities before they learn to fly. Tlie aim is not only to try to popularise aviation, from a national standpoint, but also to enable those qualified, after a full course, to go out to tlie aerodrome of a Saturday afternoon, for example, and go for a spin in the air just as people now jump into their cars for a run. or go down to the golf links for all afternoon’s pleasure. The Federal Government has pronounced its blessing upon the scheme, by erecting a club house, loaning the aerodrome for instructional purposes, giving a grant of £2O for every pupil who qualifies for a flj ing certificate, and presenting the club with a couple of machines.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1926, Page 3
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193A NEW SPORT. Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1926, Page 3
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