FLYING ON BUSINESS.
INSTANCE OF FACILITIES. PASSENGERS' EXPERIENCE. A. and N.Z.-Sun. LONDON. Aug. IS. Two business men were flying from Rotterdam to London in an Imperial Airways aeroplane. In the middle of the journey they remembered an important omission in "their business transactions at Rotterdam. The passengers passed a- note to the pilot explaining the situation and asking hirn to return to Rotterdam. The pilot wirelessly telephoned to the pilot of a Royal Dutch aeroplane, which was flying from London toward the coast of England en route to Rotterdam, asking if he had room for two passengers. The Dutch pilot replied in the affirmative and both planes landed at Lympne. There the two business men transhipped to the outward bound machine.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 11
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