Young New Zealander Seeing World in Moth

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 November 1929, Page 6

Young New Zealander Seeing World in Moth

SOME ATTENDANT RUSKS, THREATENED ’WITH DEATH A 8 SPY BY RUMANIANS. I Received Tuesday, 9.20 p.m, LONDON, Nov. 25. “It is a fascinating game, the best way imaginable of seeing the world,” said Mr. F. 0. Chichester, a young Wei lingtonito who began flying in 1927. He came to England and bought a Moth, in which ho is flying over the •Continent, preparatory to longer flights. He told the Sun newspaper that airtouring gets off the beaten tracks. ‘'You sec the real people, not the show places. I am unable to navigate and use maps and the railway lines. I land where the ground is suitable, fly alone and please myself. I could spend years circumnavigating the world like that, and it is perfectly safe. _ I do not get lost and I do not lose interest. The trouble is passports and the authorities interfere. As soon as the plane lands anywhere, however remote I am surrounded by Customs, police ami military, all demanding papers. I was forced to land in a remote corner of Rumania, near the Russian border, whereupon I was immedijatelv arrested as a Bolshevik spy and i told' I would be shot. 1 had (he greatest difficulty in establishing my bona fldcs. ns nobody there had ever heard of New Zealand.”