Bit of thread drift here but on a tour of New Zealand by 152 a few years back I landed one evening at Masterton, in the North Island, after crossing the Cook Strait. I taxied to the flying club and was helped to tie down by the somewhat elderly CFI, who then kindly drove me to the hotel. This turned out to be Doug Yarrall, sometime NZ glider champion who, in the 1960’s, flew a glider to 37,000’...