AVIATION
LONDON —CAPE FLIGHT.
[BY CABLE—PRESB ASSN— COPYRIGHT.)
ORAN, February 5.
The aviator Henshaw passed over Colomb Bechar to-day at 12.30 p.m. GMT LIBREVILLE, February 6. Henshaw left at 5.50 a.m. G.M.T. RECORD BROKEN. (Recd. February 7, 1 p.m.) - CAPE TOWN, February 6. Henshaw landed’ at 6.59 p.m. G.M.T., 39J hours from London, compared with Clouston’s 45 hours. He starts the return flight on the morning of February 7. Henshaw said he had rough going for most of the journey, defeating his hope of clipping six hours off the outwa’rd record. He had trouble with ice on the wings over the Atlas Mountains. He encountered storms at Oran and flew through cloudy weather for a thousand miles. Near the equator, when the machine seemed to go out of control, he was tempted to parachute to earth. There were head winds from Windhoek to Cape Town.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 February 1939, Page 7
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