AIR TESTS
BRITISH MINISTRY’S ACTIVITY (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, August 18. The first long-distance flights planned by the Air Ministry for the autumn will probably start from Cranwell (Lincolnshire), on September 21, when an attempt will he made to reach Khartum without a stop, with the object of testing the new Fairey monoplane and its Napier Lio: engine in African temperatures and atmospheric conditions. It is hoped after a flight into the Sudan to undertake a non-stop journey to tho Capo, which would incidentally rpstorc to Great Britain the distance record which was recently taken from Franco by tho American airmen who flow 5,000 miles from New York to Constantinople. From Cranwell to Capo Town is a distance of 5,900 miles.
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Evening Star, Issue 20876, 20 August 1931, Page 9
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124AIR TESTS Evening Star, Issue 20876, 20 August 1931, Page 9
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