FAMOUS AIRMAN
“Frightened of Aeroplanes” “It’s uo use, you’re a squib. You'll never be game to go up,” said a youthful seller of tickets for aeroplane “joyrides” at Mascot aerodrome to Sir Hubert Wilkins, the first man to fly iu the Polar regions, and who hud declined to buy one of the 'tickets. The youth hud been most persistent in his efforts to sell u ticket to One Of the most experienced airmen in the world, and liis scornful gibe left Sir Hubert Wilkins flabbergasted, but highly amused. The Polar explorer had visited the aerodrome with Sir Charles Kingsford Smith to inspect the latter’s Centenary air race ’plane. He was sitting it • car waiting for Sir Charles Kingsford Smith when the youth run up to him. “Ticket for a ’plane ride, sir J” the youth asked. “No fear. I’m frightened of those things,” said Sir Hubert Wilkins, with a twinkle in his eye that the eager ticket-seller missed. “The ’planes are quite safe, sir,” said the youth quickly. “They’re as safe as cars. A lot of people go up in them.” Sir Hubert Wilkins again refused, and it was then that the youth, despairing of making a sale, threw his gibe at his distinguished fellow Australian.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 210, 18 August 1934, Page 4
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206FAMOUS AIRMAN Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 210, 18 August 1934, Page 4
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