FLIGHT FROM THE CAPE
SQUADRON-LEADER HILTON LAST STAGE ENTERED " " (Received June 4, 6.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, June 3 Squadron-Leader Hilton, a Royal Air Force officer, who is fiying from the Cape to London in an Airspeed Envoy machine owned by Lord Nuffield, left Cairo at 3 a.m. (British summer time) to-day on the final stage of his flight. He is reported to be attempting to break the record recently established by Mrs. Amy Mollison, and to accomplish this he must reach England before 11.2 p.m: to-day. The machine which Squadron-Leader Hilton is piloting is similar in performance to the one used by Mrs. Mollison.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22437, 5 June 1936, Page 11
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