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ENGLISH AVIATRIX
TRYING FOR CAPE RECORD
I United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]
LONDON, December 2
Miss AA’inifred Spooner, the King’s Aero Cup winner, is setting out at dawn on AVednesday in a dramatic attempt to fly from London to Capetown in five clays, which would be four days less than the previous record. She will he accompanied hv Flying Officer E. Edwards, and she {Slaus to fly at night as well as by day. Miss Spooner says that she hopes to show that the Imperial Airways service which is being soon inaugurated, could run ,a five-days schedule with relay pilots and machines. She is, of course, depending on one machine, a De Soutter monoplane, with a 120-horse-power Gipsy engine. It carries sufficient petrol for eleven hours at a speed of 110 miles hourly, and a range of 1200 miles. The distance of the route is 10,250 miles. Captain Barnard is also setting out on AA’ednesday for Capteown. CAPETOAVN FLIGHT.
LONDON, December 3
Miss Spooner and Edwnrdis left Croydon for Capetown at seven a.m.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1930, Page 5
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