FLIGHT AROUND WORLD
MAJOR BLAKE COMPLETES ANOTHER STAGE. (Roc. June 27, 11.45 p.m.) London, June 27. Major Blake telegraphs as follows from Brindisi:— “Wo have arrived hero from Naples, travelling via Foggia in order to avoid the mountains as far On the way we encircled Vesuvius, flying through denso clouds of sulphurous smoke which nearly choked us. We were badly bumped when flying oyer the crater, at times rising and falling five or six hundred feet. We crossed the Appennines at a height of 10,000 feet. The machine is flying well. We are all fit and glad to be moving at last.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 233, 28 June 1922, Page 5
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105FLIGHT AROUND WORLD Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 233, 28 June 1922, Page 5
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