AERIAL AMBULANCE
WELLINGTON CLUB’S PURCHASE FASTEST CIVIL PLANE IN N.Z. By Telegraph—Press Assocation. 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 to replace the Waco cabin biplane which has been 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 pas-senger-carrier. A metal stretcher is carried at the rear of the fuselage and when a patient is being carried the stretcher is suspended from the roof above the starboard seats, thus reducing the vibration to the minimum and allowing a doctor, nurse or attendant to sit alongside. The new machine will be easily the fastest civil aircraft in New Zealand, having a top speed of 140 m.p.h. and a cruising speed of 125 m.p.h.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 276, 4 November 1933, Page 5
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