“Fly-It-Yourself” Holiday For Three

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29716, 9 January 1962, Page 13

“Fly-It-Yourself” Holiday For Three

(New Zealand Press Association)

NELSON, January 8.

On the last leg of a South Island tour. three aerial tourists landed their Tiger Moths at Nelson Aerodrome yesterday afternoon. The pilots, each in a separate aircraft, are Mr and Mrs R. Scrivener, and Mr G. Spence, from Tauranga. Since they left Tauranga on Boxing Day they have covered more than 2000 miles. They flew from Tauranga to Rotorua, Taupo, Hastings. Palmerston North, then across to Blenheim. Christchurch, Timaru, Dunedin, Alexandra, and Queenstown. The pilots spent four days at Queenstown, sleeping in tents strung between the propellers of the aircraft. The four days was spent in flying over much of the Otago countryside. From Queenstown the Tiger Moths headed down to Invercargill. There was a tense moment, landing there in a 40-knot wind, and members of the airport fire brigade stood ready to grab their wings as soon as they landed. From Invercargill they headed up to Dunedin, Oamaru. Timaru and Christ-

church. They flew from Clarence to Blenheim yesterday, and then across to Nelson. Mr Scrivener owns his own Tiger Moth, his wife is flying a Tauranga Aero Club machine, and Mr Spence is piloting a Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Club plane. The tourists will leave Nelson tomorrow for Tauranga, via Paraparaumu and Hastings.