PROPOSED WORLD FLIGHT.
LONDON, April 27, (TUvoivcd Ajtii! ;it 1.40 p.m.)
The officer who is undertaking tho nuiml-the-woild flight is Major \V. T. Dlnke. (the ‘ Daily” News’s ’ aeronautical correspondent!. .He will be accompanied by Captain Norman MacMillan. Doth (low to Morocco in 1921. Major Blake, interviewed by the ‘ Star,’ said that lie expected to start at the end of May. lie was awaiting the Air Ministry’s permission to borrow one of its special amphibian machines. Tho Vicker.s-Napier companies and (ho Shell and Wakefield Oil companies, who backed .Sir Doss .Smith, are supporting the project. The proposed route is via France, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, India. Burrnah, China, Japan, the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States, Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland, and Scotland, the total distance being 50,000 miles. The flight is exacted to be completed in two months,—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17955, 28 April 1922, Page 6
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