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Old 12th Jul 2014, 19:33
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Ian Burgess-Barber
 
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Confusion!

Danny

You are quite right, Ratmalana not Rathmalana (I misread the m for an h and then added an m to confuse myself even further), his log book was hand written, no laptops in those days! The Nawai I am curious about is, according to his logs approx 1 hour flying time in the Expediter from Palam. I think it is LAT 26.35 N 75.92 E ALT 1007 ft 28 nm south(ish) of Jaipur. It's all water under the bridge at this distance, but I was curious about 9 return trips to this spot within 1 month!
Winnie would have been a lot safer in a battleship, the C-87 was an abortion that lived, (unlike it's progenitor the B-24, the most produced heavy bomber A/C of WW2), just Wiki for the story.

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