ROYAL AIR FORCE.
FLIGHTS IN PROGRESS (Received February 8. 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless. RUGBY. Feb. 7. Tlio machines of the Royal Air Force engaged in the Cairo-Capetown flight landed at Bloemfontein from Pretoria yesterday and left again this morning for Beaufort West. Three Air Force " Rangoon " flyingboats left Felixstowe to-day on the first stage of their 3500 miles flight to Basra, Irak, where they will relieve the three Southampton flying-boats attached to squadron 203.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20793, 9 February 1931, Page 11
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