DUCHESS OF BEDFORD'S FLIGHT.
NEW, RECORD ESTABLISHED.
(BRITISH o omcitt VrtBELKSS.) RUGBY, April SO. The Duchess of Bedford in her Fokker aeroplane, piloted by Captain Barnard, landed at Croydon at half-past five this, afternoon. She left Lympne Aerodrome on the morning of April loth, and has thus accomplished the flight to, Cape Town and back, a distance of 19,000 miles, in 20J days. Had her machine not been forced down in Bulgaria owing to a blocked oilpipe, the journey would have been completed yesterday evening, ia 19 i days. ' . .. Nevertheless the Duchess and her pilot have created a brilliant new* record. They have done the double journey in 19i flying days, as one day was spent at Cape Town. Moreover, their single journey from England to Cape Town in 9} days has beaten by a big margin the previous record made by Lieutenant Murdoch, of the South African Air Force.
A large crowd had gathered at Crpydon Aerodrome to welcome the aviators, including Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Braneker, Director of Civil Aviation, Lieutenant-Commander Perrln, repre* senting the Royal Aero Clubhand Lady Cobham. _
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19917, 2 May 1930, Page 15
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