AIR-MINDED DOMINION
Since" August sixty-six young New Zealanders have come to England to join the Royal Air Force, says the '.'Manchester Guardian." That Dominion seems intent on becoming'the world's most air-minded country. Two New Zealanders, Miss Jean Batten arid Fly-ing-Officer A. E. Clouston, have between them carried off the chief flying awards of 1937—the gold medal of the International Aeronautical Federation, the, Segrave' Trophy, and the Britannia Trophy. Captain J. 'W.. Burgess, who took the Imperial Airways flying-boat Centaurus on a record 30,000-mile survey -flight to the Antipodes, is, a countryman of theirs. The latest New Zealand flyer to gpt into the headlines is Mr. H. L. "Piper, who piloted the upper component of the Mayo composite alp. craft on its crucial first separation flight. ~ ■ ".'-.. ..?; . *
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1938, Page 12
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125AIR-MINDED DOMINION Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1938, Page 12
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