Joined Commonwealth Squadron After this he joined an RAF squadron in England, the Commonwealth Squadron (No. 24). For two and a half years he was a navigator on planes taking V.I.P.s on long-range flights; this was especially interesting, he says, and thoroughly enjoyable, for they visited most of the capitals of the world. In 1952 he was back in New Zealand with the crew that ferried the first RNZAF Hastings that this country purchased. He then transferred to the RAF. After spending a couple of years with the short-range V.I.P. squadron and a similar period as a station adjutant in Germany, he joined the Comet squadron, at this time the only military jet transport squadron in the world. In 1958 he became squadron-leader of the Comet sqaudron.
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Te Ao Hou, March 1966, Page 37
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