On the Wing

BY ARBUTHNOT

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Lately, by force of circumstance, it l-ras not been porriLt. for the watchful Imray to keep this column's nose to the H'Q' grindstone but habit dies hard so it was no surprise within an hour or two of setting fqot in the lighter part of darkest Africa to find an old French version of the prewar Dronl tlidd.n in the back of a hangar at Oran airport. Unfortunately, tl-ris device was a little pasi its prime, and so it was impossible to go tyie hunting. One impressive feature of the io"ui flrb, however, was that they had three well' finished Jodel D.119's in service at the front of tn. nungur, which were being flown at a prodigious rate by tl-re enthusiasts of the locality' A11