HELP FOR AEROPLANE
Postal Officer’s Resource London, January 28. With resourcefulness recalling Albury’s world-famed action in the Centenary Air Race, Mr. Norman Wells, postal supervisor, who in wartime was a signall'er, saved a lost Air Force bomber from a perilous forced landing. The aeroplane repeatedly circled Skegness, asking for the town’s name by Morse. Mr. Wells was unable to operate the street lights, which arc operated by gas, so lie borrowed a mirror, commandeered a ear, and flashed a reply lo (he sky with the light from a headlamp, whereupon tlie aeroplane immediately signalled “OK, _thanks,” and flew off to
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 107, 30 January 1935, Page 9
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100HELP FOR AEROPLANE Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 107, 30 January 1935, Page 9
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