Flight of the Wellesleys

In 1938 three RAF single-engine bombers set out on an adventure to Oz, hoping to break a nonstop distance record. Early on November 5, 1938, three Vickers Wellesley bombers of the Royal Air Force’s Long Range Development Unit (LRDU) departed from Ismailia, Egypt, bound for Darwin, Australia, more than 7,000 miles distant. Their objective was …

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