SECRET FORMATION FLIGHT.
FOUR AIR FORCE ’PLANES. RECORD TIME ESTABLISHED. 'By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 8. The Air Ministry has announced a secret record non-stop formation flight by four Air Force Vickers Wellsley machines from Cranwell to Ismalia, a distance of 4300 miles. The flight was accomplished in thirty-two hours at an average ground speed of 135 miles an hour.
The first news of the flight was given out after the landing at Ismalia. The formation left Cranwell at 4.15 a.m. British standard time on Thursday and landed at 12.10 p.m. British standard time to-day. The ’planes flew to a point between Koweit and Bahrein, thence westward to Ismalia. The average height maintained was 10,000 feet and good conditions were experienced throughout the flight. Progress was reported regularly by wireless and there was also continual interplane communication.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 July 1938, Page 5
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