FLYING YOUTH
Children of this generation take such things as flying, wireless and the "talkies" for granted. They grow up with the same trust in aeroplanes that their parents have in motor-cars and their grandparents had in hansom cabs, writes Amy Mollison, the famous woman flier, in a London daily. It is not the children who jay-walk across the roads gazing skywards at a flying machine (I am ashamed to admit this failure myself I) Nor are they afraid of taking both feet off the ground or mistrustful of the air's being able to keep a heavier-than-air machine aloft.
The children growing up are likely to make the best pilots. They have implicit faith in their aeroplane and instructor and obey instructions to the letter —probably automatically, but that is all that is required in the first instance.
If many adult pupils had a little more respect for their instructors and a little less belief in their own prowess, they would probably learn as quickly as the small boy does.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21911, 21 September 1934, Page 4
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