NEW ZEALANDER’S HOLIDAY IN A WIDTH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 4006, 5 October 1929, Page 1

NEW ZEALANDER’S HOLIDAY IN A WIDTH.

Most New Zealanders buy a mo-tor-ear as soon as they reach London (says the Post’s correspondent), Unit Mr. Hamish Annstrong (Hawke’s Bay) bought a Moth instead a few weeks ago and took lessons at the London Air Club. The ’plane cost £7OO. He met • a South African Ifriend, Mjr. Borden Stone, also an amateur pilot, who agreed to fly over Europe with him, taking turns in piloting the ’plane. “Last Saturday wedk we hopped to Paris and spent the week-end looking over its attractions,” said Mr. Armstrong to a “Daily News” representative. “On Monday we flew over the Black Mountains to Munich, dropping in at Nancy and Strasbourg for meals. Wednesday we planed to Friedrielishafen to look over the Bornier works, where they built the 100-passenger aeroplane, and next morning we saw the Graf Zeppelin start on her world tour. Five hours later we started to jump to Nurnberg (lunch), Leipsig (afternoon tea), and Berlin (dinner). We did B'erlin on Flriday, and early Saturday we started to make a bee-line for London. On the way we called at Hanover, Osnabruck, Amsterdam, and Galais for either meals or relills of petrol. “So far we had absolutely no mechanical trouble, but a head wind kept us in the air- for nine and ah.alf houji's, and as it was getting dark and we had no navigating lights, we decided to call at Penshurst Aerodrome, near Tonbridge, in Kent. On Thursday we completed our 2500 mile flight to London.

“We have had a grand time, and we are going to start a flying tour of England and Scotland.. So far we have used the Moth purely for pleasure, but it ought to ibe very handy in New Zealand for looking up my friends or locating outbreaks of (ire in the bush.”