FLYING RECORDS
PRINCE ABANDONS ATTEMPT United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright LONDON, November 22. A message from Port Gentil (a seaport of the Gabun Colony) announces that the Rumanian airman, Prince Cantacuzene, who left Croydon at 12.36 ijn. on Saturday for Cape Town, in an attempt to beat Flying Officer Clouston’s record, has abandoned the flight. A message from Algiers said that Prince Cantacuzene landed at Aulef. 750 miles south-west of Algiers on Sunday. He was making an average speed of 165 miles an hour. He left later for Cape Town. A later report stated that the Prince had arrived at ‘ort Gentil, a seaport of the Gabun :olony, French Equatorial Africa.
TWO OTHER FLIGHTS FRANCE TO INDO-CHINA AND BEUNOS AIRES United Presa Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received November 22, 6.30 pan.) PARIS, November 21. The airman, Christian Moenche, has started on an attempt to break Andre Japy's record for tire flight f.om France to Indo-China. His destination is Saigon. The air racers. Codos and Reine, reached Dakar, West Africa, at 6.25 a.m. en route to Buenos Aires from Le Bourget, taking off again for Natal at 9 a.m.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20892, 23 November 1937, Page 7
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189FLYING RECORDS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20892, 23 November 1937, Page 7
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