UNDER SEALED ORDERS
AIRPLANES PRACTISE WAR OVER ENGLISH TOWNS ALOFT FOR 17 HOURS LONDON, Wednesday. Sixty large Air Force machines, manned as they would be iu a war • aid, except that they carried weights instead of bombs, took part in aerial manoeuvres throughout last night and early, this morning. They were carried out over tho southern counties of England. The airplanes left three southern airdromes yesterday afternoon. Their course was kept secret until they "ere in the air. Then the pilots Warned their instructions on opening •Waled envelopes. The machines had to be kept aloft *< hours. They were flown in long spells without lights. Turns in the course were indicated by flares on the ground. After six hours’ rest and refuelling, ! airmen will set out again this "tternoon for another 17 hours of fly»K
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 955, 24 April 1930, Page 11
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