FLYING NEWS
- a ATTEMPT ON ..CAPETOWN RKC'ORTT. ... INDIAN AWAITS GOOD WEATHER. (British Official Wireless.) ■ - RUGBY, Dec; 27. - The Indian airman, 1 Mohan .Singh, who is chief pilot to the Maharaja ot Patiala, is awaiting, favourable weather to . start ala - attempt to. . beat Mrs. Amy record in the flight to Capetown. - His machine, which has a range of about 1200. miles and a cruising speed op 125 miles an hour, is at Croydon; undergoing- -final . adjustments.- ~. Singly left Reading aerodrome on Saturday, intending to make his first stage toi Brindisi. (When .he did -.not; arrive at the Italian airport some alarm - wofe- expressed. Actually he only went as far as Croydon aerodrome, and as no newspapers were printed on Monday, he did riot know that he was thought- to be lost. BACK IN BRITAIN FROM AUSTRALIA . FAITHFUL CITY ARRIVES UNEXPECTEDLY (U P.A. by Elec. Tel- Copyright) , LONDON Dec. 27. The aeroplane, Faithful City,- piloted bj 7 Mr Lynch-Blosse, in which j Mr' Crawford, Greene, M.P.,...., arid I Lord Apsley recently flew to Austra--1 lid; completed ’the return journey to-day,'-:4v.hdii tlio macliine'-airrived unexpectedly at Oiacton, where, it eirierged from a fog and made a perfect landing on the beach, : ;; Mr ; ::Craivv;ford Green© remained -at’ Expected to return to England at-the end: of next week.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12139, 29 December 1933, Page 2
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