NEW CAPE RECORDS
IFLJGHT BY MR. H. L. BROOK MRS. MOLLISON'S TIME BEATEN ~ / LONDON, May 5 Mr. H. L., Brook, who arrived at Heston aerodrome to-day after his return flight from Capetown, succeeded in his attempt to better Mrs. Amy Mollison's record. His time on the return journey—he abandoned tho outward trip after a mishap at Juba — was 4 days 18 minutes, and Mrs. Mollison's was 4 days 6 hours 20 minutes. Tho airman also gains the unofficial record for the fastest flight from England to the Cape and back, tho time being 9 days 9J hours.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22722, 7 May 1937, Page 12
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