TO BURMA AND BACK
AIB CHIEF HOME FROM LONG AIR TOUH.
(UNITED TUBES ASSOCIATION—COPIRIGHT.)
(ASSTRAtiMN-NEW ZEALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.)
(Received 19th March, 11 a.m.)
LONDON, IStli March. General Sir' Sefton Brancker and Mr. Alan Cobham have arrived at Croydon, completing' an aerial tour of 17,000 miles to and from Burma for the purpose of investigating new air routes. The. machine and engine weio- unchanged throughout. General Brancker expressed the opinion that the air route to India was commercially possible and only a matter of time and money.
General Brancker, Chief of the British Air Service, and Jlr. Cobham, leading long-distance pilot, flew from Croydon to Burma and back via Constantinople. Mr. Cobham, in India, took an air survey of the Everest Group in the Himalayas.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 65, 19 March 1925, Page 5
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124TO BURMA AND BACK Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 65, 19 March 1925, Page 5
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