GREAT ACHIEVEMENT.
DISABLED AIRCRAFT’S FLIGHT. .:LONDON, October 18. Tlio pilot of a 'Wellington bomber this week brought his aircraft safely home from Bavaria on one engine, states the Air Ministry News Service. This flight is claimed to be the long-
est distance —600 miles—covered by a two-engined bomber with one engine dead, and calls for a tribute to the quality of the engine no less than to the pilot. The crew jettisoned everything they could spare down the flare chute to lighten the aircraft. The second pilot, who is a New Zealander, took the front guns to pieces and scattered them to make it more difficult for Jerry if he found them and thought of putting them together again.
“It was hard work,” said the pilot,
“keeping that dead wing up for sUch a long time—in all I had done eight hours’ continuous flying when we got home—but I jammed my elbow against my thigh and managed to keep it lip that way. We landed without any. trouble. Two nights later I was out once again.”—British Official "Wireless,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 7, 20 October 1941, Page 7
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