A Passage to India

The logbooks and photos of a No 27 Squadron Wapiti pilot, together with the unit’s records, provide a valuable insight into the Westland biplane’s sterling service over the North-West Frontier during the early 1930s WAPITIS OVER INDIA Amixed nine-aircraft formation of Wapiti IIas from the two squadrons in No 1 (Indian) Wing, 27 and 60, over the hilly and desolate terrain of the North-West Frontier. ALL PHOTOS VIA SIMON CAUTHERY Wrote Chaz Bowyer in ‘The Flying Elephants’, his history of