20 September 2024, Issue 1228
Flying High! Ayla Yeoman is the first person to tell you she is not a fan of heights, nor does she claim to be an “adrenaline junkie”. But when she was told she would be getting into a tiny plane and thrown around at 5000ft, her stomach turned.
“If you’ve watched the classic action movie Top Gun, you probably think that doing flips and somersaults in a former Royal New Zealand Airforce training plane would be great fun,” said The Weekend Sun journalist.
“For me, I was wondering why on God’s green earth we came up with the idea to leave the perfectly safe ground. I got into a flight suit, listened to the briefing, walked out of the hangar and jumped into the plane. Right before my pilot closed the
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canopy, he told me his plan for if the engine failed as we were trying to take off. We took off, there was no going back now, but before I knew it, I was having the time of my life.” Read more on pages 4 and 5. Photo: John Borren.
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