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LONDON.—A former Royal Air Force war-rant-officer, Albery Mansfield, 27, of Ranguatua, New Zealand, announced in London today that he will take off on April 1 to fly solo around the world in his Percival Proctor II “Windmill Girl,” named after the girls of the famous London Theatre. Mansfield will fuel at points in Iceland, the United States, Japan, China, Siam, Australian States, New Zealand, Malaya, India, Italy and Malta. He experts to return to Londoh on the 17th hay.— (11 a.m.)
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Northern Advocate, 10 March 1948, Page 5
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