CAIRO TO CAPE
AIR SQUAD FLIGHT SEVEN PLANES MAKE TRIP By Cable.—Bress Association. —Copyright RUGBY, Thursday. Four “Fairey” and three “F” airplanes, under the command o£ Commodore Samson, have arrived at Cape town, having completed the flight from Cairo without a hitch. The machines are of an entirely new type not yet generally introduced in the air force, and are fitted with Napier Lion engines. Commodore Samson states that they behaved splendidly every inch of the way, and the only mishap was a punctured tyre at Abercorn. The machines flew over Hex River Mountains at a height of 11,000 ft, and at Kisumu, in Kenya, they were joined by four De Haviland machines of the South African Air Force, with which they carried out at Nairobi combined exercises in co-operation with ground troops.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 April 1927, Page 13
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135CAIRO TO CAPE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 April 1927, Page 13
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