“YOU’LL DO”
INTREPID NOVICE PILOT.
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE,
ON FIRST SOLO FLIGHT
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph
Copyright.) (Australian Press Association. 1 ) Received 9.55 a.m. to-day.
SYDNEY, Aug. 13. Pilot Brain, of Quantas Airwavs, tolls a. thrilling story of a novice pilot doing his first solo flight, who was unable to land. Tlu“ pupil came down a couple of times, but was unable to stop and. rose into the air each time. Pilot Brain went after him in a small aeroplane and attempted to signal to the pupil who, Ito his amazement, tied back the controls and, at a height of a thousand feet climbed to the tail of his machine, made some adjustment, then returned to the cockpit and landed safely in a distant paddock, as did Pilot Brain.
When asked what had happened, the pupil calmly explained that something went wrong with the gear, preventing the machine from regaining the ground and the only course, was to remedy defect in mid-air.
‘ ‘ You ’ll do, ” was Pilot Brain ’s proud but laconic reply.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 13 August 1929, Page 5
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