STOLEN AEROPLANE
SEARCH OF THE SKIES TROOPER’S TELEPHONE MESSAGE LONDON, December 12. Brooklands Aero Club pilots searched the sky for a Gipsy Moth which mysteriously disappeared outside the club’s headquarters. Six hours later twenty-years-old Trooper Hale, of the 11th Hussars, telephoned the club from Tidwortli, saying ho had borrowed the aeroplane to fly back to barracks, adding: “I landed safely in a field; will you please send for the machine.” Hale had previously boon employed at tlio club as a labourer, says the ‘ Dailv Sketch,’ where he had about four hours flying experience, and had never before flown solo. It is stated that he will be charged 1 .with stealing the machine,'
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Evening Star, Issue 20987, 29 December 1931, Page 7
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112STOLEN AEROPLANE Evening Star, Issue 20987, 29 December 1931, Page 7
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