STILL UNTRACED
MISSING R.A.F. PLANE
100 OTHERS SEARCHING
(Received February 26, 10.20 a.m.)
LONDON, February 25.
A hundred aeroplanes from seven Royal Air Force stations are searching for the missing Vickers Wellesley plane, which has been practising for a long-distance record to Australia. The machine was last heard from at 7.15 a.m. yesterday two miles east of Braerner. It was the secono plane to leave Heyford on a test flight round Britain.
The first machine successfully completed thef- flight of-. 1600 miles in twelve hours. The missing plane had petrol for only fifteen hours.
The missing plane was last seen off Rothbury, Northumberland. The personnel comprises the Australian Flight Lieutenant Gardner, Flying Officer G. J. Thomson, and Sergeant Hic.s.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1938, Page 9
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