FLYING IN THICK FOG.
"THRILLING," SAYS LADY
PASSENGER.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) ' NEW PLYMOUTH, .Friday. Flyincr a De H. Moth of the Hamilton Airways, Limited, close to the ground, Captain McGregor had to search before he could find the New Plymouth aerodrome late this evening. Rain and fog obscured it.
Captain McGregor, who was accompanied by Mrs. Henry, of Auckland, as a passenger, said later that the trip had not been exactly pleasant, while his passenger described it as "thrilling." Soon after leaving Hamilton visibility became almost "nil, and,'coming down the coast the pilot -flew just above the sea, in order to keep the coast line in view.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 12
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