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LONG DISTANCE FLIGHT? MR ALAN COBHAM’S VIEWS. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, Mar. 18. Mr Alan Cobham, lecturing before the, Royal Aeronautical Society, insisted on the importance of ground organisation, which he said he regarded as more important than the length of flights between stops, instanc - ing the London to Australia flight, where the object was to reach the destination in the shortest time. For this purpose he adwat«d frequent relays, every 200 or 300 Biles, with frequent changes of machines. Under such conditions no stop for the purpose of changing machines should exceed a few minutes.—A. & N.Z. FLIGHT TO MELBOURNE. (Rec. 5J5 p.m.) London, March 19. Lieut. Cobham is leaving in about a month for a quick flight to Melbourne and back. He intends to use the same aeroplane in which he flew to Capetown and leturned.—A. & N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 19823, 20 March 1926, Page 7
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