LONG SOLO FLIGHT
AUSTRALIA TO CAPE TOWN. MRS. BONNEY SETS OUT. Journey in Easy Stages. Press Association —Copyright. Received 1 1.50 a.m. Brisbane, April 9. Mrs. Bonney, who was the first woman to fly from Australia to England, left this morning for Longreach, the first stage of her 14,000 mile* solo flight to Cape Town. She will make the flight in easy stages, the longest hop being 760 miles. The flight, which has not previously been attempted, is being made in a German Kiem monoplane. From Darwin the route will be: Koepang, then through Java, Singapore, Bangkok, Rangoon, Calcutta, Benares, Delhi, Karachi, Bushire, Baghdad and Cairo, then via Nairobi, Tanganyika, Pretoria and Johannesburg to Cape Town.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 403, 9 April 1937, Page 5
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116LONG SOLO FLIGHT Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 403, 9 April 1937, Page 5
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