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BRITISH AIRMEN. SPURRED BY AMERICANS. (Sydney “Sun” Cable.) LONDON, March 19. The British round-the-world flight has been hastened owing to the Americans having started. The British airmen leave Southampton on March 25th, dn an Amphibian craft, similar in appearance to Sir Ross Smith's, but of a more modern type. Provision is made for fltting spars engines at Tokio and Toronto. SPANISHJERVICE EXTENSION COMING. (Sydney “Sun” Gable.) MADRID, March 19, The air service from Toulouse to Casablanca will shortly be extended in an important direction to Dakar, and later across the Atlantic to Pernambuco, enabling a flight to be made from London to Buenos Ayres. • The company is establishing three floating islands in the Atlantic, being immense rafts, anchored in mid-ocean, and equipped*’ with aerodromes and hotels.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11784, 21 March 1924, Page 5
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128LEAVING SOONER New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11784, 21 March 1924, Page 5
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