BRITISH AIRMEN’S FLIGHT
STARTING ON TUESDAY TO FORESTALL THE AMERICANS. IN ONE MACHINE. By TelegraDh.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. CKbla Association. LONDON, March 20. British airmen are making a determined bid to forestall the Americans for the honour of the first flight round the world. They are making every effort to have the machine in readiness to start from Calsbot, near Southampton, on Tuesday. The British airmen rely on one machine against the Americana’ four. The British route will be via Lyons, Brindisi, Athens, Cairo, Bagdad, Karachi, Calcutta, Rangoon (Burma), Hongkong, Aleutian Islands, Vancouver, Toronto, and St. John’s, crossing the Atlantic via the Azores. The crew will consist • of Flying-Offioer Plenderleith,' \ pilot; Squadron-Leader Maclaren, navigation officer; Sergeant A. Drew, engineer.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11785, 22 March 1924, Page 6
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