FLIGHT TO AFRICA.
BREAKFAST IN LONDON—DINNER IN TANGIER. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12 p.m.) TANGIER, , August 25. Captain Barnard, .who set out from Lympne at six in the morning arrived at Tangier at 4.30 p.m. He proposes to start on a non-stop return flight tomorrow.
Captain Barnard, who recently flew to Malta and back in 264 hour?, now aspires to have breaktast in London and dinner in Africa. He has provisionally arranged to fly the 1700 miles to Tangier from London on Friday and hopes to return in a total flying time ! of 22 hours. He points* out that the Malta flight proved it was possible to avoid a landing of air mail machines going to India and to Australia on, foreign territory. So the Tangier flight will solve a similar problem for air mails to the West Coast of Africa, Tangier being an international port.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 August 1930, Page 5
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