A MONTH ALOFT
MRS BRUCE’S INTENTIONS. REFUELLING IN MID-AIR. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, May 28. Mrs Victor Bruce, with her husband, left Croydon yesterday for Gibraltar, where she will take over a giant allBritish plane in which she will attempt to set up a new world’s refuelling endurance record. In her attempt on the record she will try to remain in the air for a month. Her husband will be a relief pilot. The machine, which is fitted with three 120-horsepower ■ igines, is a sixseater cabin monoplane flying boat with landing wheels for use in an emergency. It is intended that fresh supplies of fuel oil and food will be supplied twice daily while in flight from an attendant aeroplane by means of a cord.
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Southland Times, Issue 21716, 31 May 1932, Page 5
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125A MONTH ALOFT Southland Times, Issue 21716, 31 May 1932, Page 5
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