Like a Small Silver Moth
lIAWKER TOMTIT IN SEARCHLIGHT Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Searchlights and sound locators were used together tonight for the first time in New Zealand when a detachment from the anti-aircraft section of the Royal N.Z. Artillery carried out exercises in conjunction with an officer of the Royal N.Z. Air Force, who flew a Hawker Tomtit from Hobsonvillc air base. Three of the new mobile searchlights were in operation five times. Their patient quartering of the sky was successful, and the aeroplane was trapped in three beams like a small silver moth unable to resist the attraction of a lamp-light.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 128, 2 June 1936, Page 7
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105Like a Small Silver Moth Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 128, 2 June 1936, Page 7
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