Light Planes Fly Atlantic
( (Special Crspdt N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, April 26 Five Piper Apach* aircraft have arrived at. Gatwick airport after flying in formation for .more than. 4000 miles from the United States It is the first time formation flying across the Atlantic , has been carried out by aircraft of this typ*. At speed* Of around 150 miles an hour, the aircraft, which will be handed over ■ to the National Air Train- , ing School at Hamble for the i training of future airline . pilots, flew in formation from Boston through Gander, i Newfoundland, and Santa Maria, in the Azores, to ; London. ,
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29498, 27 April 1961, Page 9
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100Light Planes Fly Atlantic Press, Volume C, Issue 29498, 27 April 1961, Page 9
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