DARING FLIGHT
< MADE BY INEXPERIENCED PILOT ATTEMPT TO RESCUE WIFE FROM RUSSIA. VENTURE ENDS IN ARREST. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) MOSCOW, November 26. After a daring 650 miles unplanned flight from Stockholm, in a 70 horsepower sports plane, a British engineer, Brian Grover, was arrested at Staritza. A pilot flew Grover from England to -Stockholm, where, during the pilot’s temporary absence, Grover hastily took off again, facing severe winter weather with little flying experience, to bring back his Russian wife, who for a year has been unable to obtain a permit to leave Russia, while he .was unable to secure a Soviet visa to go to Moscow. Grover undertook the adventure in order to draw the attention of the highest authorities to his case.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1938, Page 6
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129DARING FLIGHT Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1938, Page 6
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