"MY FIRST FLIGHT."
Many people havo still to make their first flight in an aeroplane, and this concise description should convey how strange and yet pleasant the experience actually is. It is written by an English schoolgirl of 17. " A toy castle, green and grey with strangely placed shadows, swam to meet me, and I felt that I could have seized it and taken it homo in my pocket. The fai'ms and shining roads were all flattened out to nursery size, and insect cars crawled along them. The sea was the biggest surprise of all—it seemed suddenly perfectly smooth and solid, with only patches' of submerged seaweed, making any variation. The movement of the machine was so natural that I had to see ' nothing underneath me ' to remember that I was in an aeroplane at all. On coming down the sudden silence of the engine made me realise how much noiso I had not heard, and that is all I remember of my first flight."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)
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