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AN AMBITIOUS FLIGHT PLANNED BY BRITISH FLIER. 40,000 MILES JOURNEY PROJECTED. (United Press Association— By CableCopyright.) (Received 29, 10.55 a.m.) Madrid, Dec. 28. The Spanish trans-Atlantic flier, Captain Ignacio Jiminez, plans to leave in February on an ambitious 40,000 miles flight in a Puss Moth aeroplane, including a circumnavigation of Africa and Australia, thence to the Far East, returning to Madrid in May. NEW USE FOR MOTH ’PLANE. (Received 29, 10.55 a.m.) Berlin, Dec. 28. A Moth aeroplane has been put to a novel use by two young scientists, Schultze and Zimmer. They fitted it with a miniature laboratory and made a 15,000 miles flight to Central Africa to study plants, insects, bacteriology and anthropology. “BMITHY’B" — RETURN TRIP. (Received 29, 11.10 a.m.) London, Dec. 28. Kingsford Smith says that he may start for Australia on January 6. WOMAN’S LONG SOLO FLIGHT. (Received 29, 10.55 a.m.) Melbourne, Dee. 29. Mrs H. Bonney, of Brisbane, accomplished the longest flight hitherto undertaken by a woman in Australia when she flew solo from Brisbane to Wangaratta, 1,300 miles, ’in her own Gypsy Moth.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 13, 29 December 1931, Page 7
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