The New Zealand Flying School was formed in 1915, by the Walsh Brothers, Leo and Vivian Walsh, to train pilots for the Royal Flying Corps. The school was...
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airmail deliveries, making New Zealand's first official airmail flight on December 16, 1919. New Zealand New Zealand Flying School Data from Boeing: History...
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third of the New Zealand’s pilots active during the First World War. Hence, Mission Bay was also known as ‘Flying School Bay’. The school closed in 1924...
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passengers. In mid-1915, the brothers founded the New Zealand Flying School to train men for the Royal Flying Corps. The first class of three included the...
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Queenstown (Māori: Tāhuna) is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island. It is the seat and largest town in the Queenstown-Lakes...
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Airco DH.4s and Airco DH.9s, did reach New Zealand they were either placed in storage or loaned to the flying schools, barnstormers and commercial operators...
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The flag of New Zealand (Māori: te haki o Aotearoa), also known as the New Zealand Ensign, is based on the British maritime Blue Ensign – a blue field...
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of aviation in New Zealand. A flying school was established and several hundred New Zealanders went on to serve in British flying services in Europe....
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Areketanara) is a town in the Central Otago district of the South Island of New Zealand. It is on the banks of the Clutha River (at the confluence of the Manuherikia...
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Keith Caldwell (category New Zealand World War I flying aces)
was a New Zealand fighter ace of the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War who also rose to the rank of air commodore in the Royal New Zealand Air Force...
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