AERIAL AMBULANCE
FIRST IN NEW ZEALAND. FASTEST CIVIL MACHINE. Qxfy —Tress Association. 9 WELLINGTON, Nov. 3. New Zealand's first aerial ambulance has been bought by the Wellington Aero Club and will be in operation early next month. It will replace the Waco cabin biplane now sold to the Otago Aero Club. The ambulance is the latest production of the Waco Aircraft Company and when not being used as such is a four-seater passenger carrier. A mental stretcher is carried in the rear of the fuselage. When a patient is being carried the stretcher is suspended from the roof above the starboard seats, thus reducing vibration to a minimum and allowing a doctor, nurse or attendant to sit alongside. The new machine will be easily the fastest civil aircraft in New Zealand. Its top speed is 140 miles per hour and its cruising speed 125 miles per hour.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 4 November 1933, Page 5
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147AERIAL AMBULANCE Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 4 November 1933, Page 5
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