FLIGHT TO CAPE.
~—.—-___, MRS MOLLISON’S EFFORT. SAHARA DESERT CROSSED. United Press Assn—Elem Tel, Copyright} LONDON, May 5. ‘ Mrs Amy Mollison, after having been hidden farewell by her husband. left. Gravesend at 9 am. She is again attempting the Capetown record in the same Percival Gull machine in which she crashed on April 3. She reached Oran, Algeria, at 11.5 p.m. local time. Mrs )lollison left Oran at 6.36 pm. yesterday and crossed the Sahara. She reached Gao at the southern edge of the desert at. 4.45 am. to-day and Niamey at 6.30 am. TESTING LIGHT PLANES. Alli 11. L. BROOK LEAVES. RUGBY, May 4. Mr H. L. Brook, holder of the .‘.us« iralia to England solo flight record. also set out [o—day on a flight. to the Cape. l'lis object is to demonstrate the vannlliiiiios of light aeroplanes. lie is flying a lliilson Praga machine adapiod for inngrLlislance flights. Mr Brook left Looming Aerodrome, Yorkshire, Just after 2.30 pm.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19878, 6 May 1936, Page 7
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159FLIGHT TO CAPE. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19878, 6 May 1936, Page 7
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