RECORD FLIGHT.
DUCHESS OF BEDFORD’S AIM. Cabled advice has been received by the Shell Company of the intentions of the Duchess of Bedford to endeavour to fly from London to Capetown and back to London in record time. The machine used will he the Bristol Jupiter engined Fokker previously used Inst August in Hie flight, from London to India and hack, which established a record for a flight of that nature, as the total time spent on the journey out and home was only eight days. Captain Barnard will again pilot the Duchess’s plane and Fie route is indicated by the fact that the Shell Company have been asked to lay down supplies of fuel and oil at Tangiers, Oran. Algiers, Tunis, Benghasi, Khartoum, Malakal, Tabora, Palapye Road. Beaufort West and Capetown.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17978, 25 March 1930, Page 5
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132RECORD FLIGHT. Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17978, 25 March 1930, Page 5
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