FLIGHT TO AFRICA
QUEENSLAND AVIATRIX LEAVING DARWIN APRIL Solo Journey Not Previously Attempted. Press Association—Copyright. Received 11.30 a.m. Sydney, March 16. Mrs. Bonney, the Queensland aviatrlx, who was the first woman to fly from Australia to England, will leave Darwin on April 13 on a 14,000-mlle solo flight to Africa. The route will be from Darwin to Koepang, then through Java, Singapore, Bangkok, Rangoon, Calcutta, Benares, Delhi, Karachi, Bushire, Baghdad, and Cairo; then via Nairobi, Tanganyika, Pretoria and Johannesburg to Cape Town.
The flight, which has not been previously attempted, will be madejn a German Klemm monoplane.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 384, 16 March 1937, Page 5
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97FLIGHT TO AFRICA Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 384, 16 March 1937, Page 5
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