AIR PILOT AT 15

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 27, 23 April 1927, Page 13

AIR PILOT AT 15

fROKICIENT IN EIGHT HOURS

YOUNGEST IN BRITAIN

,J‘ ob ; n . Sanders-Clark, aged 15, the Garv Ir ‘ ancl Mrs * -H. S. Sandersj« rJV ? f , Lygon Place, Westminster, sepnnj n s y° u ngest air-pilot, and the He i youn Sest Pilot in the world, to d-/ 8 to ° young to secure a licence <irivVn a cai ‘* an<3 has never, in fact, 'ith n *J ne » yet he is proficient enough Haviii j joystick ” of a Moth de s 0 aer *oplane to fly solo, and did ■iual-P r a * otal flying experience on a

-Verort eporter f ound him at Stag Lane a small > slight figure sit.W the corner of the London uir antiJ? ■ ? use vere ndah watching the I n v ot older members of the club. »>• o‘vn\ glad ’” he said, ‘ when I own Pilot’s Dus ‘ f m to ° young to have a v !ien l’v ertlficate — r «ust be 17 —but 1 ‘ion* Mu t en my test f° r if* which to mL* “ in a few days. I’m going Air s P 0ci aI application to the At n£ try for my ticket. "ithin I am only allowed to fly r °drorr>4x ra > of three miles of the ' shall hft hen 1 set my own ‘ticket’ ..id L , able to buy my own ‘ Moth ’ Mv roßs ' coun try flying. ne qd S . ct ? r said I could have dual * hnf SOio * after seven hours’ -nd fathgx- m °ther didn't like the idea But ft*, P^ te3ted - vepy u * ri f?ht now, and father *When T* n abou t the whole thing. *>•000 |f. v ® b een through the test — rn—t and doing a figure eight lna tructor « ? y ‘ dual ’ again with my , Bobin uro 11 lo °P in P and spinning.” •"Se until f at sch °ol at Malvern Col--*e ud recently, but left to V HI, an ibecause “I was not too '*uti Cs th t wanted to go into aerou»7, V^?^ Khly -" Havili«S? Ins aeronautics with the ul and Company.