EASTER TOUR
BY AEROPLANE TWENTY BRITISH MACHINES VISIT TO CONTINENT (United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copy right) (Received 26th March, 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, 25th March. Aviation history will be made at Easter, when twentv light aeroplanes piloted by owner-fliers leave London in Easter week for a 3000 miles holiday cruise in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Holland. The party will bo accompanied by a machine carrying spare parts, and later another aeroplane will join them carrying clean underclothes, as it is necessary to keep luggage to the smallest limits.
The expenses for the ten days are expected to amount to £65 each. . The pilots will cany special telegraph forms written in the language of the various countries flown over. The telegrams will recall the field cards of war time and will contain a lis,t of likely mishaps, such as petrol shortage, broken propeller ,or "please send relief plane with spares.'
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 26 March 1930, Page 5
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150EASTER TOUR Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 26 March 1930, Page 5
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