YOUTHFUL AVIATOR
MAKING GOOD PROGRESS. ON CAPETOWN-CROYDON FLIGHT. (Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 8.45 a.m.) Capetown, November 14. Victor Smith passed over Loanda at 3.1'5 a.m. Monday, an hour in advance of schedule. He cabled from Mossamedes: "I am going fine." Smith expects to negotiate the Sahara on Tuesday night and arrive at Croydon on Wednesday evening. Victor Smith, aged 19, left Capetown at 2 a.m. on Sunday in a GipsyMoth to attempt to lower the Duchess of Bedford's CapetownCroydon record of ten days.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3445, 15 November 1932, Page 5
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