WORLD FLIGHT.
GOOD PROGRESS MATTO, A DIFFICULT STAGE. ACROSS WIDE DESERT, A»«.—Copyright. London, July 10. Major Blake wires from Ramleh stating he is leaving for Ziza with the intention of proceeding to Bagdad early on Tuesday. It has been arranged that they shall be accompanied over the desert by an armed Vickers plane, which will keep in wireless touch with Cairo and Bagdad during the flight, so that in the event of a forced landing, help can immediately be sent. Owing to the absence of water in this tremendous stretch of over 500 miles of arid desert, Major Blake will carry 15 gallons of water and five days rations, though they do not anticipate having to land. The airmen are informed that this is the first time any machine has flown direct from Athens to Egypt, and the fact that it has been done on a land machine astonished everybody.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1922, Page 5
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150WORLD FLIGHT. Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1922, Page 5
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