FLIGHT TO AFRICA

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 70, 9 April 1937, Page 5

FLIGHT TO AFRICA

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Mrs Bonney Takes Oflf ior Darwin 14,000 MILES TRIP

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(Received 9, 11.55 a.m.; * BRISBANE, April 8. Mrs Bonney left this mormng for Longreacb, on tka first stage of a flight to Capetown. Ske will make the flight in easy stages, the longest hop being 760 miles. Mrs Maud Rose Bonney, a Queensland aviatrix, wko was tke first woman to flv from Australia to England, is tn a 14,000 mile solo flight. Tke route will be from Darwin to Koepang, then through Java, Singapore, Bangikok, Rangoon, Calcutta, BenaTes, Delki, Karachi, Bushire, Baghdad and Cairo, and then via Nairobi, Tanganyika, Pretoria, and Johannesburg to Capetown. Mrs Bom.ey made the longest-one-day flight in Australia by a woman pilot on Jauuary 26, 1931, when she flew from Brsbauo to W'angaratta, Victoria, a dis*tance of 900 miles. She completed a round Australia flight of 8000 miles in three weeks in Septemher, 1932. Mrs Bonney also made the first solo flight from Australia to England by a woman in April-June, 1933. She was made a member of the Order of the British Empire in June, 1934.