Officers in charge of the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s Cook Strait recent airlift discuss aircraft loading. From left are Flying Officer W. Dale (Timaru), Wing Commander P. J. McKay (Whangarei), Squadron Leader L. N. Cowling (Palmerston North), and Flight Sergeant M. Evans (Christchurch). The Air Force’s Hercules and Bristol Freighter aircraft lifted 400 people and 1150 motor vehicles across Cook Strait to help move the backlog of vehicles and their passengers built up by the strike of the Wellington waterfront unions.
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Press, 16 September 1976, Page 15
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82Officers in charge of the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s Cook Strait recent airlift discuss aircraft loading. From left are Flying Officer W. Dale (Timaru), Wing Commander P. J. McKay (Whangarei), Squadron Leader L. N. Cowling (Palmerston North), and Flight Sergeant M. Evans (Christchurch). The Air Force’s Hercules and Bristol Freighter aircraft lifted 400 people and 1150 motor vehicles across Cook Strait to help move the backlog of vehicles and their passengers built up by the strike of the Wellington waterfront unions. Press, 16 September 1976, Page 15
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