EMPIRE AIR SURVEY.
SPECIAL BIPLANE STARTS. EN ROUTE TO RHODESIA. (Received March 23, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless. RUG-BY, March 22. A new Gloster air survey biplane, tho first aircraft to have been specially designed for such work over undeveloped parts of the Empire, left Heston air park yesterday for Northern Rhodesia. The pilot was the chairman of tho Aircraft Operating Company, Mr. Allan Butler, his wife acting as second pilot. Their rodte provided for stops at Cologne, Vienna, Belgrade, Salonika and Cairo. Thence they will fly up the Nile for 2000 miles to Lake Victoria Nyanza.
After skirting its east coast they will proceed to Bulawayo, via lahora, Broken Hill and Livingstone. Mr. Butler proposes to continue the flight to Capetown, and the machine will then be flown back to Bulawayo, the African headquarters of tho Aircraft Operating Company. Mr. Butler will afterwards go to Brazil to inspect the company's survey expedition at Rio dc Janeiro.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20521, 24 March 1930, Page 9
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156EMPIRE AIR SURVEY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20521, 24 March 1930, Page 9
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