COBHAM IN AFRICA.
NATIVES GREET A VIATOR.. . FLOTILLA OF WAR CANOES, ' LONDON. Feb. IS. In a. message to the “Daily Mail” from Entebbe, Sir Alan Cobham, who is making a survey flight through Africa, says that 50 war canoes, each manned by a score of delighted Uganda warriors, who christened she flying boat “Great White Bird,” welcomed the crew with shouts and gesticulations on -their- return from an experimental flight from Lake Victoria Nyanza to Khartoum and back, a distance of 2700 miles, “When each canoe, furnished with a huge sXke, bore down on us after we alighted, I feared a disaster,- but the Armada divided, missing the wing-tips by inches. All the natives are longing to fly. “We are leaving next for Nairobi, Kenya Colony, to confer with the Government on a new air route from Central Africa to the Mediterranean.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 March 1928, Page 5
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