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LONDON, Tuesday. COvered huge areas'of Europe The big'Air - Force mono•etuming from 'Egypt !after a ghi in preparation for the breaking 'attempt to Capetown jced down in an Essex field, logged- the wheels and the t'urned' on its nose and damie propellor. ,ts generally have been interA giant French passenger landed at Croydon with great y with the assistance of fogg rockets to indicate the bouts of the drome. • '■ igh it was pitch'dark at four in the afternoon many officials iers awaited the arriva] of Airdo^e Kingsford "'Smith, with iristmas mail. He has heen ned the "Flying Santa Claus." atch was kept up for hours ,ithy found too much soot in mney and had to stop, at Le t. \Everything wa's ready for ck overhaul of his maehine-for urn flight to Australia. sford Smith left Lyons, where ; detained two days, at 11.8 irning and landed at Le Tou- ■ ? . i
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 99, 17 December 1931, Page 5
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