RNZAF Planes To Make Long Flight
(Special) AUCKAND. This Day. Sixteen New Zealand Mosquito crews will be flown to England by tire first Douglas Dakota aircraft to make the 24.000-mile return flight from the Dominion to the United Kingdom. The aircraft is expected to leave Whenuapai early next weqk on the first stage of its journey. The Mosquito crews will take delivery of the first of the Mosquitoes which are to be flown out to form the basis of the new 75 Squadron. A second aircraft of No. 41 Squad-
ron will follow the Dakota a day later
, It. too, will carry Mosquito pilots and i navigator-wireless operators. Other j Dakotas will leave at intervals. , The journey will take each plane 16 days —the longest route flown by RNZAF aircraft. The complete task of ferrying the 30 Mosquitoes to New Zealand is expected to take about six months. The pilots and navigators who are to fly them out here have been in training at Chakea and Wigrajn for the past two months.
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Northern Advocate, 8 January 1947, Page 3
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