RECORD FLIGHT.
CAPETOWN RETURN. Duchess Completes Trip In 19t Flying Days. BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, April 30. The Duchess of Bedford, in her Fokker aeroplane, piloted by Captain Barnard, landed at Croydon at 5.30 this afternoon. She left Lumpne on the morning of April 10. and has thus accomplished a flight to Capetown and back, a distance of 19,000 miles, in 20J days. Had her machine not been forced down in Bulgaria owing to a blocked oil-pipe, the journey would have been completed yesterday evening, in 19A days. Nevertheless tho Duchess and her pilot liave created a brilliant new record. They havo done the double journey in 19£ flying days, as one day was spent at Capetown. Moreover, their single journey from England to Capetown in 9J days has beaten by a big margin tlio previous record made by Lieutenant Murdoch, of tlie South African Air Force. A large crowd had gathered at Croydon Aerodrome to welcome the aviators, including Air Vice-Marshal Sir SeiVm Bancker, Director of Civil Aviation, Lieutenant-Commander Perrin, representing tho Boyal Aero Club, and Lady Cobham.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 101, 1 May 1930, Page 7
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184RECORD FLIGHT. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 101, 1 May 1930, Page 7
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