“AIR FORCE ROMEOS”
NORTHERN TERRITORY MYSTERY SOLVED SYDNEY, Apl. 14. Most of the reported “gold running smugglers” of the Northern Territory were nothing more than vitamin conscious R.A.A.F. air crews looking for fresh vegetables, according to a civil aviation official who has just returned from Darwin after investigating reports that unidentified aircraft had landed on lonely emergency airstrips in the Northern Territory. He added that the remainder of the “ smugglers ” were “ R.A.A.F. Romeos ” who had made secret moon-light landings on deserted war-time aerodromes to rendezvous with farmers’ daughters. Wheel marks at Batchelor Field alleged to have been made by large air liners from the East were proved to have been made by Wirraway training planes from Darwin.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26747, 16 April 1948, Page 2
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