ACROSS THE ARABIAN DESERT.
Major Blake’s Flight to Bagdad. Aviators to be Accompanied by Armed Machine. Dy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 11, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, July 10. Major Blake wires from Ramleh Station (Palestine), that he is leaving for Ziza with the intention of proceeding to Bagdad early on Tuesday. He states: “It has been arranged that we will be accompanied over the desert by an armed Vickers machine, which will keep in wireless touch with Cairo and Bagdad during the flight, so that, in the event of a forced landing, help can immediately be sent. Owing to the absence of water in this tremendous stretch of over 500 miles of arid desert, we will carry fifteen gallons and five days’ rations, though we do not anticipate having to land. We are informed that this is the first time that any machine has flown direct from Athens to Egypt, and the fact that it has been done on a land machine astonishes everybody.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16782, 11 July 1922, Page 6
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