LONG-DISTANCE FLYING
LONDON TO NEW ZEALAND IN TEN DAYS LORD THOMSON'S PREDICTION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. (Delayed in Transmission.) LONDON, December 25. (Received December 28, at 11 a.m.) Lord Thomson (who was Air Minister in Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s Cabinet), in the course of a speech, declared that New Zealand would soon be brought within ten days of London by machines flying 1,500 miles in nonstop stretches. The future of British aviation, he declared, rested in longdistance flights. He cited the case of a 3,400-mile non-stop flight. Ten hops would enable a traveller to reach New Zealand without touching a non-British station.
LINERS AT CAIRO,
CAIRO, December 25,
(Received December 28, at 11 a.m.)
Captain Hinchcliffe arrived ahead of Sir Sefton Brancker owing to the latter breaking a wheel at Solium. Captain Hinchcliffe’s flying time from London was 2,965 miles in 1,572 minutes. Sir Sefton Brancker’e time was 1,715 minutes. Both flew over Vesuvius. They will resume their flight on the 27th inst.
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Evening Star, Issue 19442, 28 December 1926, Page 6
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161LONG-DISTANCE FLYING Evening Star, Issue 19442, 28 December 1926, Page 6
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