AVIATION
SUCCESSFUL''PLIGHT TO CAPETOWN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 21, 11.45 p.m.) CAPETOWN, March 20The aeroplane Voortrekkcr has arrived with its pilots. Van Rynveld and Brand. This is the first complete flight from England to .the Cape in which three, machines were used. The airmen were welcomed by the Governor. General and a large crowd. AVIATORS TAKEN PRISONER. ALLAIT’TtJAD, March 19. It is rumoured that one of the Italian aeroplanes on the Tokio flight had a' forced landing in the Syrian desert, and that the. aviators were taken prisoner by the Arabs' and the machine dismantled. SOUTH AFRICAN AIR' FORCE. CAPETOWN, March 19. Captain van Ryneveld,, engaged in the flight from Cairo to Capetown, has been. placed' in charge of the South' African Air. Force.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10544, 22 March 1920, Page 5
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