FLIGHT AND FLAM.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3340, 8 September 1917, Page 3

FLIGHT AND FLAM.

In a letter just received from the Flanders front the Avriter says: " AYe had a great display by a NeAv Zealand airman in one of." our machines the other day. He comes from AVanganui, I think. He dived doAvn on to us until I thought he Avould never get up again. But he shot up again into the air almost standing on his tail. Then he did a nose-dive in a spiral. Ho came almost straight. doAvn, but tAvisting around like a eorkscreAv. You Avould have thought the machine was out of control, and he Avas coming doAvn. Then he looped the loop." The same writer refers dryly to General Godley. telling how pleased ho Avas to see " what was left of us, how avo Avere good for a few more decorations, and that he would only be too pleased to let us capture Berlin; also, that plans were already being made for the capture of the'said village. He also said our brigade Avas the best in the division — and then he pops off and tells the other brigades the same yarn. . He also told us that the rifle and bomb were only accessories, and that it was our indomitable spirit that did the trick. And of course it was because there Avas hardly a Fritz to be seen AA-hen Aye went up."