FLIGHT TO CAPE
H, Le Brook's Attempt on Record (Received 27 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, April 2c. The airman, Mr H. L. Brook took ofl; frcxn Gravesend at 5.52 a.m. yesterday in an attempt to beat Mrs Amy Mollison's records for a fiight to the Cape. He arrived at Marseilles and later took off for Cairo, which be lelt at 2.13 a.m. to-day, British staudard time, for Khartoum. From there Le left for Juba. Mrs Mollison's record, which was establisbed a year ago, was 3 daye C hours 23 miuutes.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 85, 27 April 1937, Page 5
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