LAST STAGE OF FLIGHT OF 17,000 MILES. The flight to India and back, including flight round Mount Everest, was to survey for an Empire air service, and constitutes one of the most brilliant achievements in the history of aviation. Major-general Sir W. S. Brancker (Director of Civil Aviation) made the survey, piloted by Alan J. Cobham. The photograph shows Sir W. S. Brancker and Alan Cobham (left), with the mechanic who accompanied them, on arrival at Croydon.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3713, 12 May 1925, Page 38
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77LAST STAGE OF FLIGHT OF 17,000 MILES. The flight to India and back, including flight round Mount Everest, was to survey for an Empire air service, and constitutes one of the most brilliant achievements in the history of aviation. Major-general Sir W. S. Brancker (Director of Civil Aviation) made the survey, piloted by Alan J. Cobham. The photograph shows Sir W. S. Brancker and Alan Cobham (left), with the mechanic who accompanied them, on arrival at Croydon. Otago Witness, Issue 3713, 12 May 1925, Page 38
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