BOMB RAID PRACTISING
SIXTY PLANES PARTICIPATE.
SEVENTEEN HOURS IN THE AIR.
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.
Rec. 8.45 p.m. London, April 23. Sixty big Air Force machines, manned as they would be in 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. They started out from three southern aerodromes yesterday afternoon. The course was kept secret until they were in the air, when tho pilots learned. their instructions by opening sealed envelopes. They had to remain aloft for 17 hours. They flew for long spells without lights, turns in the course being indicated by ground flares. After six hours’ rest and fuelling they will set off again in the afternoon for another seventeen hours.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1930, Page 9
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