NON-STOP RECORD
LONG-RANGE MONOPLANE
ORDERED BY AIR MINISTRY
LONDON, 9-th December.' Tho Air Ministry lias ordered fi long-range monoplane, the exact duplicate of the Fairey-Napier machine, which crashed in last year's non-stop London-to-Cape flight. With it the Department hopes to capture the world's non-stop record.
On 18th December, 1929, the Fairoy monoplane which left on 11 non-stop flight from London to the Cape, crashed in the neighbourhood of Tunis. Squad-ron-Leader A. G. Jones and Flight-Lieu-tenant N. H. Jenkins were killed. They were tha only occupants of the machine.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 139, 10 December 1930, Page 11
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88NON-STOP RECORD Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 139, 10 December 1930, Page 11
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