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Act of kindness never forgotten

I was nineteen and a newly licensed pilot. In September 1967, I hitched a ride on an aeroplane from Sydney to Perth. A slow aeroplane and the first overnight was Mildura. I had heard that country police were accommodating, literally, to travellers so I asked if I could stay in the lockup and was granted […]

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