ENGLAND TO CAPE
NON-STOP FLIGHT. TO START THIS WEEK. AN ATTEMPT THAT FAILED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 2.15 p.m. to-day. LOJNDO'N, April 2. If conditions are favourable, a start will be made to-morrow by tlie Royal Air Force Fairey monoplane to fly a non-stop flight from Oranwell aerodrome (Lincolnshire) to Durban. Flight .Lieut. Jenkins has been /selected to pilot the machine. The monoplane attempted to take off during the weekend with a full load, but failed to leave the ground and came to rest dangerously close to the wall on the outskirts of the aerodrome.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 April 1929, Page 9
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102ENGLAND TO CAPE Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 April 1929, Page 9
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