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College English Unit 2 Sailing Round the World Menu 1. About Sir Francis Chichester Born in Devon, Britain, in 1901, Sir Francis Chichester was a British adventure. As a young man, he went to New Zealand, where he worked as a miner, salesman and land agent. After returning to England in 1929, he made a solo flight to Australia in a biplane. Two years later, in 1931, he piloted the first east-west flight over the Tasman Sea between New Zealand and Australia. He then planned to fly round the world, but the plane was severely