AVIATION TESTS
FOKKER'S BIG PLANS THREE FLIGHTS PROPOSED [Australian nnd N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Jan. 21; noon). AMSTERDAM, Jan. 20. Using a special three-engincd Fokker, and carrying three assistant pilots, Herr G. Grase, technical head of the Fokker works, plans a flight to Batavia in three 24-hours' stages — Amsterdam, Basra, Allahabad, and Batavia. He previously intends to attempt a world endurance record around Holland, and also a non-stop flight to America if he succeeds in the Batavia effort.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16553, 21 January 1928, Page 5
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78AVIATION TESTS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16553, 21 January 1928, Page 5
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