NEW PILOT FOR COOK STRAIT AIRWAYS
Appointment Of Mr.
L. Taylor
Well known in New Zealand aviation circles, and till recently assistant instructor to the "Wellington Aero Club, Mr. L. P. F. Taylor has been appointed to a position as pilot with Cook Strait Airways. Mr. Taylor, who is an officer in the Wellington (Territorial) Squadron of the Royal Ne Zealand Air Force, and holds tiie rank of flight lieutenant, was born in Wellington 33 years ago. He left for England in 1929 to study aviation at the Brooklands Flying School, Waybridge, about 30 miles from London", and returned to New Zealand in 1931 with a B commercial licence and ground engineer licences A, C. and X. After continuing his aviation studies in New Zealand, Mr. Taylor returned to England in 1933 and studied further in Brooklands, where he took a Guild of Air Pilots’ instructors’ course. Back in New Zealand again in 1935 he continued Hying, and for a considerable time was assistant instructor to the Wellington Aero Club. As he was a qualified night and blind flying instructor he carried out a major portion of the tuition in those branches of aviation. . Mr. Taylor was a prominent Rugby player and rifle shot in Wellington a few years ago.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 72, 17 December 1938, Page 10
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