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YOUNG ENGLISHMAN’S SOLO FLIGHT WINNER OF KING’S CUP LAST YEAR (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received February 7, 7.50 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, February 6. . Mr Alex Henshaw, aged 20, winner of the King’s Cup air race last year, took off from Gravesend at 3.35 a.m. yesterday for the Cape and landed at 6.59 p.m. (Greenwich mean time) —39J hours from London; compared with Flying Officer A. E. Clouston’s record of 45 hours.
Mr Henshaw will start his return flight tomorrow morning. Mr Henshaw said he had rough going for most of the journey, this defeating his hope of clipping six hours off the outwards record. He had trouble with ice on the wings over the Atlas Mountains, and encountered storms at Oran. * Mr Henshaw flew through cloudy weather for 1000 miles near the Equator, when his aeroplane seemed so out of control that he was tempted to parachute to the earth. There were head winds from Windhoek to Cape Town.
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Southland Times, Issue 23737, 8 February 1939, Page 5
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163RECORD TO CAPE BROKEN Southland Times, Issue 23737, 8 February 1939, Page 5
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