HOME FROM BAVARIA ON ONE ENGINE
Bomber Pilot’s Feat
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received October 19, 8.5 p.m.)
RUGBY, October 18.
The 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 longest distance--600 miles —covered by a two-engined bomber with one engine dead and calls for tribute to the quality of the engine no less than that of 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. They also jettisoned the oxygen bottles, cutting the steel netting and tubes with an axe. “It was hard work,” said the pilot, “keeping that dead wing up for such a long time, as I had to. In all I had done eight hours’ continouus flying when we got home, but I jammed my elbow against my thigh and managed to keep it up that way. We landed without any trouble, and two nights later I was out once again.”
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 21, 20 October 1941, Page 7
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