GREAT FRENCH FLIGHT
FRANCE TO INDO CHINA AND BACK 15,000 MILES COVERED (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) PARIS, Saturday. Two French airmen, M. Bailly and M. Reginensi, arrived at Le Bourget airdrome to-day after completing the journey to Saigon, French Indo-China, and back, a distance of 15,000 miles. The time taken outward was 10 days and homeward .under nine days, which is a record. The actual flying time for the return journey was IGO hours. CAPETOWN FLIGHT CANCELLATION BY R.A.F. Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) LONDON, Sunday. In consequence of tthe seasonal bad weather in Central Africa the proposed flight to Capetown by members of the Royal Air Force has been cancelled in favour of another destination, probably Calcutta. The flight was to have been made in a Fairey monoplane, piloted by Squadron-Leader A. G. Jones-Williams and Flight-Lieutenant E. V. Williams. The object was to make a record duration flight.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 644, 22 April 1929, Page 9
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