Chichester Honoured
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Pilot Who Put Norfolk on Aerial Map
From Our Own Correspondent.
NORFOLK IS., January 11.
IT is a matter of personal satisfac tion with us that the flying man, Chichester, who visited us last year, was presented by the Prince of Wales at the annual meeting of the Empire Air Pilots’ Guild, on November 19, with the Johnston Trophy for the year’s best feat of civil aerial navigation.
The trophy was presented for com petiton by Mrs. Johnston, widow of the hero of the RlOl disaster, and at the same function Mr. Chichester met and talked with Amy Johnston, whom he had last seen in Japan, when he was recovering from the injuries sustained in the world flight upon which he had set out when he called upon us en route from New Zealand to Australia.
The particular feat that gained the trophy for him was his achievement in picking up this island of Norfolk while still 30 miles distant, and swooping upon us from the blue, like a sea eagle dropping on its prey.
Now we feel that in some obscure manner we won that trophy with him.