SURVEY FLIGHT TO AFRICA
AUSTRALIAN AERIAL PLANS United P> bs Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright CANBERRA, March 29 A trans-Indian Ocean survey flight from Onslow, on the north-west coast □f Australia, to Mombasa, on the East Coast of South Africa, is being sponsored by the Commonwealth Government. It will begin in June, via Cocos Island, thence to Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands and Port Victoria, on Mahe Island, in the Seychelles. In making this announcement last night, the Minister of Civil Aviation (Mr H. V. Thorby) said the flight was designed to ascertain the defence and civil aviation value of this route, as an alternative to the present air route to England in the event of an emergency.
The Government, he added, has chartered from Dr Richard Archbold, research associate of the American Museum of Natural History, the long range flying-boat “Guba,” and Captain P. G. Taylor, the prominent Australian aviator, will have charge of the entire flight and the preparations for it.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21308, 30 March 1939, Page 7
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