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• ■ ■' JOURNEY TO SOUTH i AMERICA. MRS VICTOR BRUCE»S NEXT ATTEMPT. ' (united press AssocrATioir—bt bleotbio TELEGBAPH—COPXBIGHT.) ' LONDON, February 23. s Mrs Victor Bruce, who has just ' completed a world flight, says that she bae decided to fly across the Atlantio. , Her flight to Japan was undertaken ; to prove that the standard of the British aeroplane has no superior. She ; wants to fly to South America as a counterblast to the extensive American ■ sales campaign there. FAIRBAIRN HEADING FOR ROME. . LONDON, February 22. ' Mr Fairbairn, the Cambridge under- 1 graduate who is attempting /a- record flight to Australia, has left Nice for ••! Home. RECORD FLIGHT CLAIMED. ■■■■■■ . ... ' . .1 PARIS, February 22. \ Flying a commercial aeroplane a i pilot landed at Le Bourget 80 minutes ' after leaving Croydon. He is believed 1 to have made record speed, averaging 1 175 miles hourly. * 1
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20170, 24 February 1931, Page 9
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140AVIATION. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20170, 24 February 1931, Page 9
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