NON-STOP FLIGHT RECORD.
BRITAIN’S EFFORTS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Aug. 19. The first long-distance flight planned by the Air Ministry for the autumn will probably start from Cranwell, Lincolnshire, on September 24. An attempt is to be made to reach Khartoum by a non-stor> flight, with the object of testing a new Fairey monoplane and its Napier Lion engine in African temperatures and atmospheric conditions. •It is hoped, after the flight into the Sudan, to undertake a non-stop journey to the Cape, which would incidentally restore to Great Britain the distance record recently taken from France by the American airmen who flew 5000 miles from New York to Constantinople. From Cranwell to Capetown is a distance of 5900 miles.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 222, 20 August 1931, Page 7
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119NON-STOP FLIGHT RECORD. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 222, 20 August 1931, Page 7
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