AIR FORCE CRUISE.
AFRICAN ITINERARY. , .1 (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 24. Next year for the first time the annual Royal Air Force formation cruise from Cairo to South and East Africa and back will be entrusted to a mixed squadron. Five single-engined Fairey 3 F. day bombers and four VickersVictoria troop-carriers will leave the Heliopolis Aerodrome (Cairo) at the - end of Feburary and will return there after their flight. Their provisional itinerary takes them as far south as Pretoria and back to Cairo by way of Bulawayo, Livingstone, Salisbury, Abercon, Mombasa, Nairobi, Malaki, and Khartoum. On the homeward flight the detachment will make halts of three of four days at each of the chief centres, and the machines will visit the outlying regions of Rhodesia and the northern frontier of Kenya.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 309, 27 November 1933, Page 7
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