GLOBAL FLIGHT
Pilot May Take Airline Jet
(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) DARWIN, July 29. The solo global pilot, Mr C. Tait, aged 39, will abandon his plane and take a commercial airline . jet home if he cannot reach Auckland by August 2 to celebrate his seventeenth wedding anniversary.
Mr Tait said this as he left Darwin today in a New Zea-land-built Airtourer on the third last stage of his trip. He is expected to reach Mount Isa, in western Queensland tonight in the Airtourer which he claims is the smallest plane to fly round the world.
“I’ll never make a trip like this again . . . it’s hard work,” he said.
The flight was to publicise New Zealand, “but the New Zealand Government would not help with money.” He said he was travelling at about 120 m.p.h., and was worried that he would not make his wedding anniversary date in time. “I'll take a commercial airliner to Auckland if necessary,” he said. “To hell with the flight.”
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32053, 30 July 1969, Page 30
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