CENTENARIAN'S FLIGHT
■ —; ♦ —-■.•'■ South Australia's oldest . pioneei settler, Mrs, J. B. Curry, of North Adelaide, celebrated her one hundredth birthday by having her first aeroplane flight. She is so thrilled with the experience that she wants to go u'f again. "Of course, I took a youn;; man ■ with me," she said when interviewed, on landing. "I held His hand tightly all the time. I always fee: more confident when I am grasping t young man's- hand.. ■-.: I never let c woman help me on or off a tram. A woman dropped me once." • Her flighi was arranged on the spur of the moment. "We were passing the aerodrome on a drive to Tanunda (an Adelaide suburb) when I thought I would like to see an aeroplane close up," she explained. "Mr. Roy Gropler, the England-Australia flyer, recognised me and invited me to go up." On his nexi flight Mr. Gropler took up a 94-year-olc country visitor, Mr. F. Biggs, who hac eluded his friends to make, the trip.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1937, Page 11
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167CENTENARIAN'S FLIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1937, Page 11
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