PATIENTS BY AIR.
FIRST AERIAL AMBULANCE. METAL STRETCHER CARRIED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON", Friday. New Zealand's first aerial ambulance has been bought by the Wellington Aero Club, and will be in operation early next month. It will replace the Waco cabin biplane, which has been sold to the Otago Aero Club. The ambulance is the latest production of the Waco Aircraft- Company, and when not being used as an ambulance is a four-seater passenger carrier. A metal stretcher is carried in the rear of the fuselage. When a patient is being carried the stretcher is suspended from the roof above the starboard seats, thus reducing vibration to a minimum and allowing a doctor, nurse or attendant to sit alongside the patient. The machine will be easily the fastest civil aircraft in New Zealand. Its' top speed is 140 miles an hour, and its cruising speed 125 miles an hour.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 261, 4 November 1933, Page 15
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149PATIENTS BY AIR. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 261, 4 November 1933, Page 15
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