BRITISH AIR FORCE
HELIOPOLIS SQUADRON. FLIGHT TO CAPETOWN. (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, December 21.'. {Received Dee. 22, at 5.5 p.m.) Three Vickers Victoria aeroplanes of number 2i G squadron, stationed at Heliopolis, will begin a service flight to Capctown on January 12. The machines, which are of the type which evacuated Europeans from Kabul during the trouble in Afghanistan last year, in the course of the flight will go through troop carrying exercises at three of their halts. This will be the first occasion on which African native troops have been transported by air. The machines are fitted with two Napier Lion 450 h.p. engines, and are each capable of carrying 23 soldiers and their equipment. With a full load they have a cruising speed of about 80 miles an hour, and a range of nearly 500 miles.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21216, 23 December 1930, Page 9
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