COMET'S FAST FLIGHT
%UJ F,R ON WAY TO ("UNCO ijt 11*17 ISO cr.'l UL * RUGBY, December 20. J Ken Waller, who. with O. Cath-itirt-Jones, recently flew to Austra'■■a and back in 13'. days, left yesterfor Belgium to make a flight the Belgian Congo in the' Comet j«p*oplane on the Australian | Sight. * Tne range oi the machine was Reduced and other modifications lis'-ere introduced for the journey, *"ich is intended to demonstrate possibility of a regular air mail srvice on this route. "A'aller with a Belgian. Captain '•'anchomme. left Brussels to-day on '• fight to 1 _,eopo!dvillc. They landed at Oran this after"Don, having completed .1060 miles ... four hours 56 minutes at a speed '.'210 miles an hour. To-morrow they ,*'sll go on to Nuamev, French West J'friea. !55f; miles distant.
WNNEK to air. race WINNERS LONDON, December 20. k°rd Londonderry proposed the -eahh of c W A. Scott and T. -ampbeli-Bluck iil a dinner giver, p. honour by the Royal Aero j-Jlib. There were more than 1000 ••lE-sis, nicltn.iing the pilots of the tu, cK Douglas air-liner, K. D. Par--tiilicr and J. J. Moll.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21354, 22 December 1934, Page 15
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