HAZARDOUS AIR RACE
NAIROBI TO CROYDON HOPE WINS THROUGH PERILS (United Service) LONDON, Thursday. A race to bring to London from Africa the first pictures of incidents in the visit of the Priace of Wales to Nairobi was won by the King’s Cup winner. Captain W. L Hope. He accomplished the perilous journey of 6,000 miles in 10 days in a Gipsy Moth plane. Captain Hope wa£ unconscious for two days owing to sunstroke at Atbara, where the temperature was 122 degrees in the shade. He then pushed on in a dazed condition over flooded country, where engine failure would have meant his instant death. A dust storm forced the airman to fly low over the dreaded Nuer district. Hostile tribesmen endeavoured to spear the passing airplane. Captain Hope burned out an exhaust valve, which ha replaced in a desert workshop. He arrived at Alexandria exhausted after a night flight against head winds. The airplane was bundled on board a departing steamer. The airman had sufflciently recovered at Brindisi to take the air again. He encountered rain and gales, and on nearing Paris ran into fog and collided with a huge bird, which broke the propeller of his plane and damaged a wing. He procured another plane, and alighted at Croydon days ahead of his rivals.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 489, 19 October 1928, Page 9
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216HAZARDOUS AIR RACE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 489, 19 October 1928, Page 9
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