HONEYMOON FLYERS
MRS. BENTLEY LEARNS TO PILOT PLANE British Official Wireless Reed. noon. RUGBY, Sunday. Flight-Lieut. Bentley, who last year flew alone in a small Moth airplane 8,000 miles from London to Capetown to be married, and who won the trophy for the most meritorious air performance of the year by doing the journey in record time, returned to London with his bride yesterday in his machine. During the S.OOO miles return journev, Mrs. Bentley learned to take over the controls. Their machine has a 30-horse-power Cirrus engine. During the journey, they met Lady Hearth the British airwoman, at Buluwayo, and their two machines flew ln company over the heart of Africa. Lieut." Bentley expects to fly back to South Africa in the autumn.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 353, 14 May 1928, Page 9
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