SPANISH AIRMAN.
Plans 40,000 Miles Flight to
Include Australia.
HERO OP ATLANTIC VENTURE.
(Received 10 a.m.) MADRID, December 28. Tlio Spanish trans-Atlantic flyer Captain Iguaclo Jiminez plans to leave in February on an ambitious 40,000 miles' flight in a Puss Moth aeroplane. The route mapped out by the airman includes the circumnavigation of Africa and Australia, thence extending to the Far East. Captain Jiminez expects to return to Madrid in May.
In March, 1929, Captains Jiminez and Inglesias left Seville, Spain, for Port Natal, i Brazil, avbere ithey arrived after a flight of 35 hours over the Atlantic. The machine, which was called the Jesus del Gran Poder, without stopping circled the city' and turned south for Rio de Janeiro, where a great welcome was accorded the airmen.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 307, 29 December 1931, Page 7
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128SPANISH AIRMAN. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 307, 29 December 1931, Page 7
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