AERIAL AMBULANCE.
TO HOSPITAL BY ’PLANE. PATIENT FROM AOTEA. The value of air transport in oases of emergency was again illustrated yesterday, when Mr. Stanley Blackmore piloted Hie Waikato Aviation Company’s Desoulter monoplane to Aotea and brought an olderly man Into the Waikato Hospital. The roads were too bad for an ambulance to make the trip, and the ’plane was commissioned as an aerial ambulance. Accompanied by a Hamilton doctor, Mr. Blaclcmore made a fast trip, landing on I lie beach outside the patient’s borne at Aotea 20 minutes after leaving the Te Rapa aerodrome. A bed was prepared in the machine, and the patient was made comfortable. The return flight was made in good lime, and when the ’plane landed ai, Te Rapa an ambulance was on its way from Hie hospital, and shortly after the passenger was transferred to the institution, where his condition to-day is reported to be satisfactory.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 18987, 3 July 1933, Page 6
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