COBHAM IN AFRICA
NATIVES GREET AVIATOR
FLOTILLA OF WAR CANOES
LONDON, February LS. In u message to tbe 4 Daily Mail from Entebbe, Sir .Man Cobham, who is making a survey flight through Africa, savs that lil'ty war canoes, each maimed by a score of delighted Uganda warriors, who christened the flying boat 1 Great ’While Rird,’ welcomed the crew with shouts and gesticulations on their return from an experimental (light from Lake Victoria Nyauza to Klnntoum and hack, a distance ol 2,i0() miles. , . ... 14 When each canoe, furnished with a lingo spike, bore down on ns after wo alighted, I feared a disaster, hut the Armada divided, missing the wing-tips by inches. All the natives are longing to fly. 14 Wo are leaving next for Nairobi, Kenya Colony, to confer with the Government on a new air ronlo from Central Africa io the Mediterranean.”
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Evening Star, Issue 19802, 28 February 1928, Page 6
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145COBHAM IN AFRICA Evening Star, Issue 19802, 28 February 1928, Page 6
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