CAIRO TO DURBAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 577, 1 February 1929, Page 9

CAIRO TO DURBAN

AIR FORCE PLANES’ CRUISE MONOPLANE’S LONG FLIGHT British Official Wireless RUGBY, Thursday. The annual formation cruise of the Royal Air Force machines in the Middle East command, from Cairo to the Cape, will be commenced on February 12. On reaching Nairobi, the capital of Kenya Colony, the machines will carry out co-operative exercises with the King’s African Rifles, and will proceed to Capetown in March. The outward terminal point is Durban, 6,300 miles from Cairo, and on the return flight the machines will be accompanied from Pretoria to Khartoum by the aircraft of the South African Air Force. The Fairey monoplane in which it is hoped to establish a fresh long-dis-tance flight record has to undergo one more sustained test before it sets out in three stages for South Africa. From there an attempt will be made to reach England :in one continuous flight. NEW ENDURANCE RECORD 17-YEAR-OLD GIRL FLYER’S FEAT (United Service) NEW YORK, Thursday. Miss Elinor Smith, aged 17, to-day established a world’s solo endurance flying record for women. She had been up for 13 hours 16 minutes 45 seconds when she landed from her plane at Mitchell Field early this morning. The previous record of 12 hours 11 minutes was held by Miss Bobby Troift, of California.