OPERATION “NIGHT FLIGHT”
CADET PILOTS’ EXERCISE Part of the ground combat training course 'or Air Force cadet pilots held in Lees Valley last week, “Operation Night Flight,” ended at 9 a.m. on Saturday. when the last pair of cadets reached the boundary of the R.N.Z.A.F. station. Wigram, without being “captured.”
The cadets were to have started from Sheffield, about 35 miles from Christchurch. At 8 p.m. on Friday, however, the operation was reorganised because of rain, and the cadets were sent off in pairs at 10-minute intervals from Racecourse Hill, a short distance from the original starting point. They were to make then* way back to the station without being detected. Two platoons from the Airmen Recruit Training School at Burnham. and about 35 men from Wigram acted as searching parties.
The instructor who went with the cadets. Corporal W. T. F. Buchanan, said that all parties had performed excellently.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26126, 31 May 1950, Page 8
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