AERIAL MANOEUVRES
17 HOURS IN THE AIR SEVERE BRITISH TESTS LONDON, April 23. Sixty big Air Force machines, manned as they would be on a wartime raid, except that they carried weights instead of bombs, participated in aerial manoeuvres throughout the night and early this morning over the southern counties. The planes started out. from three southern aerodromes yesterday afternoon. The course was kept secret until in the air. when the pilots learned their instructions on opening'sealed envelopes. They had to remain aloft for 17 hours, and flew for long spells without lights, the turns in the course being indicated by ground flares. After six hours' rest for fuelling, they will sel Off again in the afternoon for another 17 hours.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17241, 24 April 1930, Page 7
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121AERIAL MANOEUVRES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17241, 24 April 1930, Page 7
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