Anbei ein Auszug der Story um den “fliegenden Priester” der im Top End aktiv war.
I remember Vic Peterson – he crashed in Nixon’s paddock across the river – he walked over the drome and paid for an air fare to Darwin by threepenny and sixpenny coins from his collection bag.
Less Cox, 20 March 2004
…, and the Wynn family at Katherine remembered him arriving in his aircraft, assembling his bicycle and riding to visit them on Riverbank Drive west of the town.
Vic hat a habit of either getting lost or crashlanding his aircraft. Some said his planes were held together with “fait and Araldite”, particulary after he began maintaining and servicing his aircraft. He went missing in the remote Kimberley in October 1945 before been located by the RAAF (Royal Australian Airforce) and in March 1950 he crashed his Tiger Moth, VH-BJD (“Before Jesus Departed”) in Nixon’s paddock, before calmly walking to the Katherine Aerodrome and purchasing a one-way air ticket to Darwin.