INDIA AND BACK.
DUCHESS OF BEDFORD'S FLIGHT •• ' LONDON, August 2. The Duchess of, Bedford started from typipne, Kent, at dawn to-day .on an attempt to fly to India and back in a week in the monoplane Spider., The pilots are Captain C. D. Barnard and Mr; Bob Little. i They hope to do the journey in four hops,'the first to Sofia, the second to Aleppo, the third, .to Bushire, and the fourth to. Karachi. The Duchess of Bedford is herself able to pilot. a machine, and flies her own small aeroplane. She, with Captain Barnard and Flying-Officer E. H. Alliott, attempted to make- a record flight to_lndia last June in the aeroplane Princess Xenia, but a slight , accident, at. Bushire detained them for some days. Captain Barnard and Flying-Officer Alliott flew back from Karachi to Croydon, arriving on September . _ 26, after a . record for the journey from India to England, four and a-half days. The Princess Xenia was hired last year by the Duchess. It is a Fokker monoplane, with a 500 h.p. Bristol Jupiter engine. In this aeroplane Captain Mcintosh attempted to fly the Atlantic Duchess of Bedford, from Ireland, and 1 she-was also used by Captain Mcintosh and Mr. . Bert Hinlder on a flight to India, which ended in their being driven down in a storm in Poland. i . "
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 182, 3 August 1929, Page 9
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