FLYING TO SCHEDULE
Journey of Troop-carriers (Rec. March 12, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless . Rugby, Marell 11. Three Royal Air Force Vickers-Vic-torian troop carriers, which left Cairo 1 oh January 12 on flight to Cape Town and back, reached the Heliopolis aerodrome to-day, having completed a flight of nearly 12,000 miles to schedule. Each machine is driven by two Napier 530 horse-power motors. ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA London, March 11. Messrs. Neville Stack and J. Chaplin will set out in April in a VickersNapier 135 mlle-an-hoiir mail carrier to demonstrate that an air mail is possible to Australia in 101 days, and buck In London in twenty-one days, flying from dawn to dusk.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 143, 13 March 1931, Page 9
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111FLYING TO SCHEDULE Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 143, 13 March 1931, Page 9
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