HUSTLING AIRMAN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 30 July 1917, Page 3

HUSTLING AIRMAN.

One morning just before the present phase of the western advance opened a flying squadron set out for France from an inland aerodrome (says the Evening Standard). They took exactly two and a-half hours to complete the journey, and sat down to lunch behind the British lines at 1.30. Every machine completed the journey without a single forced landing. The following day another complement of learners occupied the aerodrome, and within 72 hours of leaving England the squadron commander, who possesses the double distinction of- being an intrepid flier and a first-class instructor, was back at the flying school and ready to take his new pupils in hand. In the meantime, however, he had, single-handed, accounted for three German machines.