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BRITISHER’S TRIP TO CAPETOWN (Reeceived 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 7.' Flight-Lieutenant Thomas Rose, who started from Lympne at 2 a.m. today on a flight to Capetown in the Miles Falcon machine with which he won the King’s Cup last year, ran into a snow storm and crashed at Abbeville aerodrome. » He was only slightly injured. He is returning to England. The aeroplane was fitted with additional petrol tanks, which gave it a range of about 1500 miles. DANE ATTEMPTS RECORD FLIGHT (Received 12.30 p.m.) CAPETOWN, January 7. Mr Otto Thaning, Danish consul at Johannesburg, left here in an attempt to break the Cape to England record, via the west coast. He hopes to make only three stops. He had bright moonlight and good conditions for the first stage of his journey, with his wife as co-pilot. Mr Thaning is using an American Beechcraft monoplane, with a cruising speed of over 150 m.p.h.
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Northern Advocate, 8 January 1936, Page 5
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