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BORROWED "PLANE
LONDON, 19 th December. Brooklands Aero Club pilots have searched the sky for a Gipsy Moth which mysteriously disappeared outside the club's headquarters. Six hours later . 20-year-old Trooper Hale, of the 11th Hussars, telephoned the club from Tidworth, saying ho had borrowed the aeroplane to fly back to barracks, adding: "I landed safely in a field; will you plcaso send for the machine." HrJo had previously been employed at. the club as a labourer, says 'the "Daily Sketch," and he had" about lour hours' flying experience, and had never, before flown solo. It is stated that he will be charged with stealing ihe machine.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1932, Page 7
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108FLEW HOME Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1932, Page 7
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