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Pilot Russell Brodie takes the bundled up poppy and star artworks from his Tiger Moth after flying from Rangitata Island to Timaru on Wednesday.
One hundred pupils from Timaru South School received a short history lesson when the Poppy Flight reached Timaru. Pilot Russell Brodie made a delayed landing in his Tiger Moth at Timaru’s Richard Pearse Airport on Wednesday morning, bringing two artworks, one bearing poppies and the other stars, which are being carried around the country as part of a charity relay flight. On arrival Brodie, who had flown from Rangitata Island, explained to the pupils, as well as members of the Returned Services’ Association and public, how the plane had been built in 1942.
Keith Pickford will land at Rangitata Island in his Auster MK 5 on Tuesday afternoon and the following day Russell Brodie flies his Tiger Moth from Rangitata to Timaru’s Richard Pearse Airport. At each stopover people have been encouraged to knit poppies as well as stars representing the Starship Foundation, which can be attached to artworks that are being carried around the country. The Temuka Knit and Natter Group has been busy knitting poppies for the cause. “I knitted 14 of them,” member Elaine Costello said. “It’s not difficult. It only took hour an hour for each one.” The poppies will be handed over when Brodie’s Tiger Moth touches down.