Newspapers such as the Daily Mail pay nothing for stories such as this despite the myth they have fat check-books.
The recent Daily Mail feature was a mix of news agency copy and material in the public domain?
Maurice will not get far on hopes of money from the newspapers to fund his adventure.
He has published a shopping list on Facebook.
STOLEN equipment from the poor old cub, downed in South Sudan, leaves Maurice with a long shopping list to beg, borrrrow, prefeably buy, 2nd hand or new ......
1. hand held radio
2. emergency beacon
3. ferry tanks
4. petrol tubing/ conections and out board primer pump
5. transponder stubby aerial/vhf aerial
6. 2x mobility dry cell 12v batteries
7.emergency led nav lights
8.c 90 continental engine or parts there of (may be ok)
9 cub prop (from UK hoped)
10. undercarriage leg/ piece of cabane ( from UK hoped)
11. Galaxy mobile phone
12. 1st Aid kit
13. fuses/electrical wire
14.small venturi
15.Cub J3L4 part of engine cowlings
16. Wing oot fairings or parts there of
17.grey duct tape
18.Don's equivalent of 'get dents out of leading edges' kit!
19. And any old Garmin GPS, I am told, is all the rage these days
my new Kenya number is: +254713600723
Maurice is currently shacked up by kind invitation of the second oldest flying club in the world, Aero Club of East Africa. Don, I am with a ' learn yourself Swaheli book in one 100 easy moves.....for my jaunt, after urgent re build down from 'Twiggy's front garden, in Loki to Vic Falls.
May go back to Narus on a borrowed motor bike to request the above aircraft parts back as only the watch of my dash and batteries, under my seat are of any use to the poor stricken people...ALSo, very quiet, it would appear, is the 'adoption' of the school a passing aircraft wing could have flattened!
Brain Storm Primary School photos later
The good news is he appears to enjoy his present location.
Oh, what a night in Aero Club of East Africa....please pass me another asperin!
source
https://www.facebook.com/maurice.kirk.92?ref=br_rs