THE FLYING FAMILY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 610, 15 August 1933, Page 7

THE FLYING FAMILY

OUT TO ENJOY TH.EMSELVES AND SEE THE WORLD. PLANNING LONG FLIGHT. The famous "flying family" whose trans-Atlantic -flight last year ended in the wreeking of their plane on the Greenland coast, and their rescue after 36 hours by a British trawler, are planning another long distance flight. . In an interview, Mr. George Hutchinson, the father, answered the critics of his Greenland adventure. "All over the world mothers and fathers have . been saying that I ought to have been put in prison for exposing my family to danger," he said. "That Greenland flight," he said, "was not a stunt. I have never stunted in my life. I have flown my family over 100,000 miles in my own 'plane and not one of us has had a scratch from our adventures." For the first time Mr. Hutchinson told the full story of his much-dis-cussed flight, and revealed why he takes his family with him. "I always have the safest 'plane I can get, the best and most accurate instruments. I never fly at night, and never more than three or four hours

at a time. "For our Greenland trip Lloyd's of London gave me all the insurance I wanted," Mr. Hutchinson said. "We had intended to go round the world, visiting 68 nations." The cause of the flying family's crash was a sudden snow squall. Mr. Hutchinson br ought the 'plane down intending to anchor for safety in a fjord, and as he was taxi-ing acro'ss the water a submerged chunk of ice pierced a hole in one of the floats. The flying family have been flying together for five years, Mr. Hutchinson explained. It started with a trial flight of five minutes, when all four went up for the first time. That made the family flying crazy. Soon after that Mr. Hutchinson decided to take up flying as a career. But the job took him away from home a lot, which neither he nor his, wife liked. So Mrs. Hutchinson said: "If you are going to fly, we are, too. If it s safe for you, it's just as safe for me and the babies. "I'll bet there are millions of children who are not so safe on land as mine are in the air." The next flying family trip will start in Europe. "We are out to see the world and enjoy ourselves," said the flying father. "We shall not fly the Atlantic."