TWO BIG AIRCRAFT EN ROUTE TO DOMINION
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WELLINGTON/ Nov. 2/ 'The R.A.F. Lincoln aircraft RF498 is on it3 way to New Zealand with • a part-y of bombing experts as crew. The Lincoln tooli off .front the R.A.F. Mar hani station on Oetober 2(5 for ('aste! Benito, the first stop on the flight to New Zealand. This is one of the annuftl liaison visits from R.A.F. experts. The Lincoln is dne at Whenuapai on November 10. Group Uaptain H. O. Bufton is in charge of' the flight. Tho Lincolnian aircraft Aries .11 from the R.A.F. Empire Air Navigation School at Shawbury ( England) will arrive at Whenuapai on Noveniber ,12 on a flight wliich has taken the bomber to Malta, .Traq, Ceylon, Singapore and AustraJia and which will continue to South Africa. The oflicer comnianding the mission, Group Oaptain E. E. Viellc, is deputy commandant of the Empire Air Navigation Sehooi. I '
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 November 1947, Page 2
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