Took Father’s Plane
(N Z. Press Assn .—Copyright) RATON (New Mexico), February 13
Fifteen-year-old David House was in gaol today for flying his father’s new Cessna aircraft without permission —and without a flying lesson "I always had the feeling I could fly. so I just tried it It was easy as pie,” said the boy. who flew the plane 200 miles last night to another airport His father, who only qualified for a pilot’s licence last month, told the police to hold his son overnight in gaol when he heard of the whereabouts of the plane and David. The boy said he flew the plane by doing what he had seen his father do at the controls
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29748, 15 February 1962, Page 13
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