FEATS IN AVIATION
FRANCE TO MADAGASCAR. RETURN FLIGHT COMPLETED. Paris, Nov. 20. French airmen to-day completed two magnificent feats. M. Bailly, a weathy young enthusiast, who devotes himself to aviation, with Riginensi Marsot, completed a flight from Madagascar, flying there and back (15,600 miles), across Africa, in 23 days, including a six days’ halt at Madagascar. M. Mailly planned to return via the Nile Valley, but M. Laurent-Eynac, Minister of Air, urged him to prove that the outward journey of eight days five hours was not duo to chance. Ho therefore returned from Antananarivo (Madagascar) in regular stages in the same time, 52 hours leys than the flight carried out last month, as compared with 74 days taken by M. Dagnatfx, pioneer of the Madagascar route, in 1027. It is expected that M. Bailly’s “Antananarivo Express” will be the forerunner of regular services. The second performance was that of Captain Costes and Belleconte, the longdistance record-breakers, who flew from Hanoi (Indo-China), and arrived at Rome in four days.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1929, Page 7
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