MOLLISON BEHIND SCHEDULE
I Flying to the Cape |
iUnited Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.] (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, November 30.
Mr J. A. Mollison, who, with M. Molinier as co-pilot, look off from Croydon for the Cape, arrived at Caori at 3.27 a.m., Greenwich mean time, and departed at 6.25.
Bad weather in the Mediterranean caused Mr Mollison to make a deviation of 500 miles, and he arrived at Cairo with only five gallons of petrol left. He is now five hours behind schedule, but 'i is pushing on flat out to reach Kisumu tonight and Capetown tomorrow evening.
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Northern Advocate, 1 December 1936, Page 7
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