AIR FLIGHTS.
CAPTAIN ROSS SMITH. ABANDONS THE JOURNEY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received, Dec. 28, 5.5 p.m. Melbourne, Dee. 28. Captain Ross Smith has definitely decided to abandon his flight and to entrain for Sydney.—Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn POULET ALTERS HIS MIND. Paris, Dec. 26. Poulct intends to continue liis journey to Australia. OAJPE TO CAIRO ROUTS;
London, Dec. 20. The Air Ministry announces that, after twelve months' work, three survey parties have explored the various zones of the Cape to Cairo flying route and cleared aerodromes and landing grounds about 200 miles apart along the selected route, which follows the Nile for the greater part of the way to Khartoum. Thence, through Uganda, it skirts the eastern -'do of Lake Victoria, crosses over German East Africa, Bulawayo, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, to Capetown. The aerial route is approximately 5200 miles.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1919, Page 5
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138AIR FLIGHTS. Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1919, Page 5
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