APT FLYING PUPIL
SOLO ON FIRST DAY NOTED SPEEDWAY RIDER , [BY TEUF.GKAFH OWN CORRESPONDENT] PALMERSTON NORTH, Thursday To the Manawatu Aero Club falls the distinction of having trained a pupil to fly solo in a single day.- As far as is known this has not been achieved in the Dominion before and is probably a unique performance for Australia and New Zealand. The task of giving instruction was in the hands of Flying-Officer G. M. Firth, instructor to the Manawatu Aero Club, formerly of Auckland, and the pupil was Putt Mossman, the speedway champion. A start was made at daybreak today in the club's Moth machine, four hours being devoted to successive flights of from 20 minutes to half, an hour. During the course of these Mossman learned the rudiments of flyine. Then a spell was called for about three hours and Mossman again went dual, making six perfect landings in succession. He then went solo and made a good landing, but was unfortunate in touching a fence with a winetip while taxi-ing in. causing minor damage.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22349, 21 February 1936, Page 12
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