DUCHESS AT THE CAPE
LONG FLIGHT ENDS WITH 1,360-MILE HOP BATTLE WITH STORM CAPETOWN, Saturday. The Duchess of Bedford, Captain C. D. Barnard and Mr. R. Little, who left Lympne in the monoplane The Spider at dawn on April 10, arrived at Capetown at 5.50 a.m. today. The fliers reached Bulawayo unexpectedly last evening, and travelled from there to Capetown, a distance of 1,360 miles, in a single hop. The weather was so stormy that the duchess and her companions could not s.ee the Zambesi River. Thousands of people cheered the party lustily when the machine landed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 952, 21 April 1930, Page 9
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