After learning to fly five years ago, Joan Parsons flew to the Cape and back last summer, taking three months in all.
She had many adventures. Having to land at Victoria West on the outward flight, she hit a barbed-wire fence, which wrapped itself round the propeller-shaft. It was not surprising that the plane had to go to Capetown for overhaul.
On the return journey she lost her way and had to come down in the middle of an African forest.

(To be repeated tomorrow: Regional, 3.55)