SPECTACULAR FLIGHT
LONG-RANGE BOMBERS A CENTENARY FEATURE LONDON, Jan. 7. (Received Jan. 8, at 9.30 p.m.) The New Zealand Government is considering plans as a Centenary feature for a spectacular flight to New Zealand of 30 long-range Vickers Wellington bombers, ordered from Britain. The planes will leave in formation batches of five or six as completed, from June till the end of the summer. The pilots will be mostly New Zealanders terminating short service commissions in the R.A.F.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23702, 9 January 1939, Page 7
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78SPECTACULAR FLIGHT Otago Daily Times, Issue 23702, 9 January 1939, Page 7
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