DUCHESS’ FLIGHT DELAYED
RETURN FROM SOUTH AFRICA.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
London, April 29. -
The Duchess of Bedford, on her return flight from South Afrie’a, was forced down at Dragoman, on the Bulgarian frontier, owing to a broken oil pipe. She is e:-petted to resume to-morrow.
The duchess, Captain C. D. Barnard and Mr. R. Little, who left Lympne in the monoplane The Spider at dawn on April 10, and arrived at Capetown at 5.50 a.m, on April 19, started on their return flight to England on April 21. The flyers hoped to reach Croydon in eight days. If Lire Duchess can reach Croydon on Tuesday night she. will create a new world’s record by flying 19,000 miles from England to the Cape and back in nine and a-half days.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1930, Page 9
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