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F-LIGHT TO CAPE TOWN. SAFE RETURN TO HELIOPOLIS. (.United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —C 'opyright. J RUGBY, March 11. The throe Royal Air Force Vickers- ' ictona troop-carriers, which left Cairo on January 12 on a flight to Gape I'owii and back, reached Heliopolis Aerodrome today, having completed the flight of nearly 12,000 miles to seheduL'. Each machine is driven bv two Napier 530 horse-power motors. german plane. TO STUDY UPPER AIII. BERLIN. March 16. Tile Junkers firm are building a special aeroplane capable of reaching an altitude of fifty thousand feet, for the purpose of research in the currents of the upper air. Test fkghts of from twenty-three thousand to thirty-six thousand foot will try the effectiveness of the plane’s airtight double walled cabin, wherein the crew are to operate the machine, and sleep. The air pressure ip l>eing maintained by means of a compressor.
■woman atr pilot
BLENHEIM. March 17
In the connection with Pauline Bennett’s B. air pilot ticket, she is the first woman pilot to secure that distinction, but F. R. Dix of Blenheim took his B. ticket in October.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1931, Page 5
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