ROUND WORLD FLIGHT
BRITISH AIRMEN HASTEN START London, March 19. 'l7lc British round-the-world flight has been hastened owing to the Americans having started. The British airmen will leave Southampton on March 25. in an amphibian craft., similar in appearance to Sir Ross Smith’s, but of a more modern type. Provision is made for fitting spare engines at Tokio and Toronto.—Svdnev “Sun” Cable. LONDON TO BUENOS AIRES Madrid, March 19. Tho air service from Toulouse to Casablanca, will shortly be extended in an important direction to Dakar, and later across tho Atlantic to Pernambuco, enabling a flight to be made from London to Buonos Aires. Tho company is establishing in the Atlantic three floating islands, in the form of immense rafts, anchored in midocean, and equipped with aerodromes and hotels.—Sydney “Sun” Cable.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 152, 21 March 1924, Page 7
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131ROUND WORLD FLIGHT Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 152, 21 March 1924, Page 7
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