18,500-MILE FLIGHT
DUCHESS' NEW VENTURE TO THE CAPE AND BACK (British Official Wireless.) flee. JO a.m. RUGBY; April 10. The Duchess of Bedford and Captain Barnard left Croydon a prodrome yesterday afternoon in Hie Fokker Jupiter monoplane for Lympne, whence they stalled at dawn to-day on an attempt lo fly to Capetown and hack, a distance o!' 18,500 miles, in J 8 days. Mr. R. Little accompanies them as auxiliary pilot. Last August the Duchess and Captain Barnard made a record flight to India. and back ill seven and a. half days. On that flight, the Duchess, who is 61 years of age, took her turn in the control of the plane while Captain Barnard slept, and she will relieve the pilots at the controls on the present flight.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17232, 11 April 1930, Page 7
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