SPLENDID RECORD
BRITISH AIR TRANSPORT AUXILIARY HUNDRED THOUSAND PLANES DELIVERED. THIRTY MILLION MILES FLOWN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) RUGBY, September 17. The Air Transport Auxiliary celebrated its third birthday this week, with this record—loo,ooo planes delivered, 225,000 hours flown, thirty million miles covered. The pilots (some of whom are women) have handled 117 types of aircraft and about a quarter could fly them all.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1942, Page 2
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68SPLENDID RECORD Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1942, Page 2
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