NEW ZEALAND AIRMAN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17283, 26 September 1916, Page 11

NEW ZEALAND AIRMAN.

EXPERIENCES IN BRITAIN,

A New Zealander, who now is a sublieutenant in the Air Service, writes to a.friend in Christchurch:—

Just a line to let you know I am still honking along. Perhaps you like a brief account of my doings". After my arrival I went to Hendon, so as to be in the centre of things. I then joined tho London and Provincial flying School, and upheld the reputation of New Zealand by getting my aviator's certificate in a fortnight with only two hours on the machine. Having so well, the manager of the L. and P. School offered me the job as instructor, which I promptly accepted, meanwhile sending in my application for a commission in the R.N.A.S. Besides instructing I had to take up passengers on exhibition days. Back in New Zealand we thought flying pretty hard, hut it is a jolly 6ight easier than driving a side-car combination to Lake Coleridge. I often look back and think of the fun we had in the old days, and I wish you were here in the flying set to join in the fun. They are all sports.and the best of good 1 fellows. The other day I was up in a 'bus called the —. Besides two pilots thero were passengers. Wei flew all over London and attained a height of feet. The number of passengers taken up constituted a world's record. A machine is no good for active service, now unless it can do 120 m.p.h., and I can tell you it is going some. ~" I got my commission all right, and am stationed at Crystal Palace, hut lam to be sent "somewhere" else in a week's time.