PEATS OF AVIATION.
FRANCE TO MADAGASCAR.
RETURN FLIGHT COMPLETED.
PARIS, Nov. 20.
French airmen to-day completed two magnificent feats. y M. Bailly, a wealthy young I enthusiast, who devotes himself to aviation, with Riginensi Marsot, completed a flight from Madagascar;, flying there and back (15,600 miles), across Africa, in 1 23 days, including a six days' halt at Madagascar. M. Bailly planned to return via the Nile Valley, but M. Laurent-Eycac, Minister of Air, urged him to prove that the outward journey of eight days five hours was not due to chance. He therefore returned from Antananarivo (Madagascar) in regular stages in* the same time, 52 hours less than" the flight carried out last month, as compared with 74 days taken by M. Dagnaux, pioneer of the Madagascar route, in 1927.
It is expected that M. Bailly's "Antananarivo Express" will be the forerunner oi' regular services. , . 1 . • The second performance was that of Captain Costes and Belleconte, the longdistance record-breakers, who from Hanoi (Indo-China), and arrived at Roma in four days.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 13
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