LONG-DISTANCE FLIGHT
R.A.E, MONOPLANE
LA!-DJNa AT WALVIS BAYjI
IN -SOUTH-WEST;- AFRICA!
(British OfflcjcJ Wireless.) (Received 9th February, noon.): RUGBY, Bth February.' 1 The world's long-distance nori*stop flight record was broken to* day when the Royal Air' Force Fairey Napier monoplane, piloted by Squadron-Leader Gayford and Flight-Lieut. Nicholetle,'. which left Cranwell, Lincolnshire, at 7.12 a.m. pn Monday, passed over Zesfonteiri in South-West Africa, about noori to-day. > Zesfontein is approximately 50_ miles from Cranwell, and this distance was covered in about 51' hours. Hitherto the long-distance flight record was held by the Ameri* can airmen Boardman and Polando, with a distance of 4984 miles. v Having broken this record th* Royal Air Force pilots decided to' abandon their intention of flying on to Cape Town and landed at 4.40*j p.m. at Walvis Bay, nearly 800 miles! from Cape Town.
The previous world's record • forjj fligbt in a straight line was establish-) ed by Eussell Boardman and John. Polando, two American aviators, who? flew from New York to Constantinople, in July, 1931. They covered 498_ miles in 49 hours 8 minutes. - Before-, that Captain D. Coste, wbo later flewii the Atlantic westward, established m\ record of 4912 miles,' flying from Paris', to Tsitsikar in Manchuria. - 0_ thiij. flight, which took place in September/ ■1929, he. was accompanied ._j; Mauric^' Bellonte. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 33, 9 February 1933, Page 11
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217LONG-DISTANCE FLIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 33, 9 February 1933, Page 11
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