IDEAL HOLIDAY

Northern Advocate, 21 August 1929, Page 7

IDEAL HOLIDAY

FLIGHT ACROSS EUROPE. X.Z. FARMER'S TOUR. (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, August 19. Mr Hamish Armstrong, sheepfarmor, of Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, returned to England today after a week's tour of 2500 miles in a twoseater Moth aeroplane. On landing he exclaimed that dying over Europe in one’s own aeroplane beat travelling by train hollow. Mr Armstrong who has booked his homeward passage by a vessel leav ing on September 14, says he' is determined to see all he can before he leaves. He bought the Moth for £7OO three weeks ago and took dying lessons at the London Aero Club. The New Zealander shared the piloting duties in the flight across Europe with a friend from South Africa, Mr Borden Stone. Last Saturday they dew to Paris, spent the week-end there and then crossed the Black Mountains to Munich, calling at Nancy and Strasbourg for meals en route.

From Munich the two friends went to Friedrichshafen, where they visited the Dernier works and saw the Graf Zeppelin start out on her world dight. They ate luncheon at Nuremberg, afternoon (tea. at Leipzig and dinner at Berlin, where they spent one day. Leaving Berlin for London yesterday’ Mr Armstrong and his companion called at Hanover, Csnabruck, Amsterdam and Calais. They experienced no mechanical troubles, but a head wind between Calais and London forced them to land at Tonbridge be*, cause they had no navigating lights. The visitors propose to dy about England and Scotland this week. Mr Armstrong says his Moth should be very handy in New Zealand for calling upon friends, also . for locating bush fires.