AIR FORCE TOUR
FLIGHT ACROSS AFRICA LITTLE-KNOWN TERRITORY (British Official Wireless.) ' Rec. 10 a.m. RUGBY, Oct. 22. Four British day bombers which left Cairo last week on an 11,000 miles service cruise across equatorial Africa left Uenoina this morning for Fort Lamy. The route involves a flight over great tracts of little-known ground, and is 40CO miles longer than the distance covered in a similar tour last year. Tho .westernmost point will he Bathurst, in Gambia. , On tho way the aeroplanes will fly across Nigeria to Ashanti and the Gold Coast, back inland to Bamako, in the French Sudan, and over French Guinea to Sierra Leone.
Squadron-Leader Vincent commands the flight.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17606, 23 October 1931, Page 5
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