MOLLISON ARRIVES
-BEATING THE BUOOEQ * BY FOURTEEN -HfiUftS (Received 29th March, noaa.) CAPE TOWN, 28th .March. Mollison landed -safely at .8.35 tonight at Milnerton Beach, 'missing the Wingfield aerodrome by a. ,£ew'aniles,< though it was fully lighted with Ajbeam visible for J. 50 miles. Milnßrtira -is sixlmiles north of Cape Town. Mollison was jrutihed to the aerndromei in r< caT, where jbl large crowd ,gavje Mm. .an enthusiastic tWelflome. Tlie total time taken for ihß ffiglt was four days sixteen hours. JMoHisoa' thus xireates a new record, beating.Misi' Peggy Salaman?s time by fourteen hours. He had two forced landings, ths-first-crossing the iSahara .owing to -Dverwhelming sleepiness, ,and the -seoaud <m the hanks of the Niger owing -to eneinsr troiiMe. He said that ie had actual}?; flown four nights without sleep.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1932, Page 7
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