OFF TO CAPE TOWN
MISS WINIFRED SPOONER
A FIVE-DAY ATTEMPT
LONDON, 2nd December. Miss Winifred Spooner, the King's Cup Bace winner, is setting out at dawn on Wednesday in a dramatic attempt to fly i'rom London to Cape Town in five days, which is four days less than the' previous record. She will bo accompanied by Flying Officer E. Edwards, and plans to fly at night as well as during the day. Miss Spooner says she hopes to show that the Imperial Airways Service,, which is soon to be inaugurated, could run a five-days' schedule with relay pilots and machines. She, of course, is depending on one machine—a De Soutter monoplane, with a 120-horse power Gipsy engine. It carries sufficient petrol for 11 hours at a speed of 110 m.p.h., with a range of 1200 miles. The distance of the route is 10,250 miles. Captain C. B. Barnard, pilot to the -Duchess of Bedford, is also setting out on Wednesday for Cape Town.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 9
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163OFF TO CAPE TOWN Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 9
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