WORKERS AND AIRMEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1941, Page 5

WORKERS AND AIRMEN

EXCHANGE VISITS BRING GOOD RESULTS. PRACTICE IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) RUGEY, March 10. The practice of exchanging visits between aircraft factory workers and airmen who fly the planes which these workers make continues and during a recent visit of Lysander aircraft workers to a station of the R.A.F. Army Co-operation Command the visitors heard warm praise of their machines from the commander of a squadron who, by way of illustration, told them how, during the Scandinavian campaign, their fine craftsmanship had enabled him to achieve a landing in bad weather in Norway in a space "about the size of four tennis courts.” The visitors were shown aircraft at dispersal points, watched Lysanders flying on exercises, inspected maintenance units and talked to airmen at work on aircraft in the open air. The mechanical technicalities of the Lysanders were fully discussed and opinions on various component parts sought by the visitors, while pilots and aircraftsmen themselves put many questions which were answered by representatives of different branches of the factory.