NEVER TOO LATE TO FLY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 9

NEVER TOO LATE TO FLY

PARKERSON'S PLUCK

OFF TO AUSTRALIA AT FIFTY

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(Received 15th February, 10 a.m.)

LONDON, 14th February. "There is nothing like flying," said Mr. C. P. Parkerson, an elderly retired business man of Auckland, in an interview. He said that he had always been interested in flying, but had to ;wait until the -end of his business days before taking it up seriously. He found it difficult at first, but afterwards easy. He had not been more than forty hours in the air, flying only in England. He had bought a Moth which he was flying to Australia as the easiest way of getting there. He hoped to change the ordinary route by a short-cut over Turkey, but it was difficult to obtain flying permits in that country. His route probably would be from Lympne to Lyons, Turin, Pisa, . Rome, Naples, Brindisi, Athens, Konia, Aleppo, Basra, Jask, Karachi, Allahabad, Calcutta, Rangoon, Singapore, Reo, in Flores Island, and Darwin. "If the weather is good, I will go all out. If it is not good, I shall wait. My machine is not fitted with slotted wings, which are all right for a novice, but unnecessary for old hands."