SPANISH AIRMAN
FRANCO TO ATTEMPT WORLD FLIGHT
STARTS TO-MORROW
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 11 a.m. MADRID, Friday. Commandante Franco will leave from Cartagena on Sunday with two companions to fly round the world on an easterly course, crossing the Pacific via Alaska, and the Atlantic via the Azores.
In 1926 Commandante Franco flew 6,259 miles in stages from Spain to South America, including a non-stop ocean flight of 1,500 miles.
His flying time was 59£ hours. He flew in a Dormer-Wal flying-boat.
TWO AUSTRALIANS
MOIR AND OWEN REACH PERSIAN GULF
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 11 a.m. LONDON, Friday. Advice has been received that the Australians, Flying-Officers Moil* and Owen, have arrived at Bander Abbas, on the Persian Gulf. They are flying from Britain to Australia in a VickersVellore machine.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 654, 4 May 1929, Page 9
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