New Record Flight

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 960, 1 May 1930, Page 9

New Record Flight

FLYING DUCHESS WINS OUT

Double Journey Triumph

A RETURN TRIP IN TWENTY DAYS

BY covering the return journey from England to Capetown, a distance of 19,000 miles, in 191 flying days, the Duchess of Bedford, with her pilot Captain Barnard, has established a new Might record. On the single trip to Capetown the Fokker monoplane eclipsed by a big- margin the previous record.

Brit i ti Official Wireless Reed. 11.50 a.m. RUGBY, Wed. The Duchess of Bedford, in her Fokker airplane, piloted by Captain C. D. Barnard, landed at Croydon at 5.30 o’clock this afternoon. She left Lympne on the morning of April 10, ancF has thus accomplished the flight to Capetown and back, a distance of 19,000 miles, in 20& days. Had her machine not been forced down in Bulgaria owing to a blocked oilpipe, tho journey would have been completed yesterday evening in 19£ days. Nevertheless, the duchess and

her pilot have created a brilliant new record. They have done the double journey in 194 flying days, as one day was spent at Capetown. Moreover, their single journey from England to in 94 days has beaten by a big margin the previous record made by Lieutenant Murdoch, of the South African Air Force. A large crowd had gathered at Croydon airdrome to welcome the aviators, including Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker. Director *of Civil Aviation, Lieutenant-Commander Perrin, representing the Royal Aero Club, and LadyN Cobham.