MONSOON FLIGHT
ROYAL AIR FORCE FEAT IN INDIA CONVEYANCE OF SICK OFFICER AND WIFE (Recd This Day, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, July 17. Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Thomson Glover, British resident at Kashmir, who is ill, reached Karachi intending to catch the Imperial Airways machine for England, which was damaged in a collision at Shargar. In view of the nature of his illness LieutenantColonel Glover was advised to travel by sea and consequently was flown, with his wife, from Karachi to Bombay, in a Royal Air Force plane, which 'made a six hundred miles flight through monsoon weather, thus enabling them to embark on the Maloja. It was the first time passengers had landed at the aerodrome during a monsoon.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1938, Page 6
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118MONSOON FLIGHT Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1938, Page 6
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