AVIATION FEATS.
MISS SAL A MAN BACK IN ENGLAND.
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec. 1
Miss Peggy Salaman. the young English girl, who, in company, with Mr Gordon Store, her. instructor, flew from England to the Cape in the record time of .five and a-haif days, arrived by boat at Southampton on Monday. She hopes to fly solo to Croydon for an official reception, hut meanwhile her machine is undergoing airworthiness tests. LONG-DISTANCE CRAFT.
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec. 1. The British Air Ministry’s FaireyNapier long-distance neroplone, which is returning from Egypt, to which it made a non-stop flight recently, is held up at Marseilles by bad weather. GLIDER LOOPS-THE-LOOP. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec. 1. The feat of looping-tlic-loop in a British glider was performed by Mr Longmore near Brighton (England) on Sunday, at a height of only 400 feet, thus constituting a world record for engineless aircraft.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 2, 2 December 1931, Page 7
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