LOCATING 'PLANES.
SEARCHLIGHT EXERCISES. NIGHT FLYING IN AUCKLAND. In conjunction with officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force from the Hobsonville air base, a detachment of the Royal New Zealand Artillery will on each night of this week until Thursday carry out exercises in which sound locators and the new mobile searchlight units will be used. Aeroplanes will fly at various heights and will be located and held in the searchlight beams as long as possible. The pilots of the planes will endeavour to make the locating of the planes by the operators of the searchlights as difficult as possible, and though straight courses will be followed to-night, on other nights the pilots will be permitted to fly irregular courses and also to make use of cloud banks to conceal the planes from the observers below. Two machines will be used, a Hawker Tomtit and a de Havilland Moth, while a Vickers Vildebeest bomber may also be flown during the course of the week'? exercises. To assist pilots landing on their return a floodlight and flares will be available.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 128, 1 June 1936, Page 9
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180LOCATING 'PLANES. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 128, 1 June 1936, Page 9
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