GREAT FLIGHT ENDS
LONDON TO CAPETOWN AND BACK HENSHAW RETURNS TO ENGLAND THREE NEW RECORDS : Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright] LONDON, Feb. 9. The aviator Alex Henshaw, who took off from Capetown yesterday on a return flight to London, having broken the outward record, landed at Gravesend at 1.51 p.m. The return flight occupied 1 day 15 hours 30 niinues, beating the record by 17 hours 27 minutes. The instrument board and his coat were drenched with blood. Henshaw stated that it was most bumpy on the last stage. His nose had been bleeding since 7.15 a.m. Despite his | exhaustion, he made a perfect landing and when lifted out of the machine he was unable to stand and was carried to the Customs building, but he speedily recovered. Henshaw finished the double flight in 4 days 10 hours, beating FlyingOfficer A. E. Clouston’s record.
Henshaw left Gao, a small village in Western Sudan, last night after five hours’ rest and landed at Oran (Algiers) at 7.20 a.m. Behind schedule, he left at 7.48 a.m. for London after refuelling.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 35, 11 February 1939, Page 9
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