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Default OT - Flying Doctor - Wisdom of the Ancients required

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Nightjar cpb@ insert my surname here.me.uk wrote:
On 15/07/2015 19:39, Brian-Gaff wrote:
Yes, that last one was the one. Did they not use some weird three engined
plane in it?...


With over 150 different types, tri-motors are hardly weird. It makes a
lot of sense for bush aircraft to carry two spare engines, especially if
half the stories I heard from a former flying doctor pilot were true.


Indeed; a cousin of mine, a nurse, was killed when with a similar service
in Kenya.

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