AIR FORCE CRUISE
SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR PLAN'S FOR NEXT YEAR (British Official Wireless.) Rec, 10 a.m. RUGBY, Nov. 26. Next year, for the -first time, the annual. Royal Air Force formation cruise from Cairo to South and East Africa and hack will he entrusted to a mixed squadron. Five single-engined Fairey 3F day bombers and four Vickers Victoria troop carriers will leave Heliopolis aerodrome, Cairo, at the end of February, and return there after the flight. Their provisional itinerary goes as. far south as Pretoria, and takes them back to Cano by way of Bulawayo. Livingstone, Salisbury, Abercorn, Mombasa. Nairobi, Malakal, and Khartoum. On the homeward flight the detachment will make halts of three or four days at eacli af the chief centres, and the machines will visit outlying regions of Rhodesia end the northern frontier of Kenya.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18256, 27 November 1933, Page 5
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