ROUND THE WORLD
Tour BY LANCASTER FAR EAsf~EQUIPMENT ( 9 a.m.) _ LONDON, Oct. 29. On a mission to study navigation and demonstrate the latest equipment likely to be of use in the Pacific area a Royal Air Force Lancaster from the Empire Central Navigation School of the Flying Training Command is now on it.-:, fust round-the-world flight, slates the Ail Ministry. Tne on tv. ard i'.ide is ill include iVh.nlreal. Wasliinylon. San I* raneiseo and Honolulu for ti pining air crews for the Far Kasl. and each member of the crew, will give specialist lectures during a series of _ visits to operational training stations m Australia and New Zealand and possibly New Guinea. Tire Lancaster will tour New Zealand. after which il will proceed to Australia and return to Britain via Ceylon, Karachi and Cairo. The longest hop will be the 3000 miles from Australia to Ceylon. The plane, which will be a standard Lancaster with added fuel tanks, is captained by Wing Commander D. C. McKinley.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21548, 30 October 1944, Page 5
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