SIR ALAN COBHAM
FLYING MISSION FINISHED
AIR TOUR OF BRITISH ISLES
Brltlsli -Official Wireless.
(Received 7th October, 11 a.m.)
RUGBY, 6th October. Sir Alan Cobham will return to London to-morrow on the completion of twenty-one weeks' tour of the British Isles. Tho purpose of the tour was to stimulate interest in flying, and in particular to press' forward the idea of municipal aerodromes. He is confident that by the ond of 1930 there will be a chain of 100 aerodromes and landing grounds over the British Isles. During his tour he has visited 100 towns, and lias taken 40,000 people, including 10,000 Children, for flights.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 85, 7 October 1929, Page 9
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