NEW ZEALANDER ALOFT
FASCINATING AIR TOUR OF EUROPE
ARRESTED AS A SPY LONDON, Monday. "It is a fascinating game, and the best way imaginable of seeing the world," said Mr. F. C. Chichester, a young Wellington man, Mho began flying in 1927. He came to England and bought a Moth machine, in which he has been flying over the Continent preparatory to longer flights. Mr. Chichester said: —“Air touring gets one off the beaten tracks. You see real people, not show places. I am unable to navigate, and use maps and railway lines. I land where it is suitable. I fly alone and please myself. X could spend years circumnavigating the world like that. It is perfectly safe. Ido not get lost, and I do not lose interest.
“The trouble is passports, and the interference of the authorities. As soon as my airplane lands anywhere, however remote, I am surrounded by customs, police, and military authorities, all demanding my papers. I was forced to land in a remote corner of Rumania, near the Russian border, whereupon I was immediately arrested as a Bolshevik spy, and told I would be shot. I had the greatest difficulty in establishing my bonafides, as nobody there had ever heard of New Zealand.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 831, 27 November 1929, Page 9
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