DRAMATIC DASH BY AIR
LONDON-CAPETOWN ROUTE. MISS SPOONER STARTS AT DAWN. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10.45 p.m. London, Dec. 2. Miss Winifred Spooner, the; King’s Cup • air race winner, is setting out at dawn on Wednesday in a ..dramatic attempt to Sy from London to ’Capetown in five days, which is four days less than the previous record. She will be accompanied by. ' Flying-Officer E. Edwards and plans to fly t at night as well as by day.' < Miss Spooner says she hopes to show that the Imperial Airways service, soon to , be inaugurated, could .run a five days schedule with relay pilots and machines. She, of course, is depending on one machine, a De Soutter monoplane of horsepower with a Gipsy engine. It vies sufficient petrol for eleven hours, speed is 110 miles an hour ' and w machine has a range of 1200 miles, disfance of the route is 10,250 miles. Captain Barnard is also setting o_ Wednesday for Capetown.- n _,, npT A later message says Miss bpooner left Croydon at 7 a.m. ■
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1930, Page 8
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