TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIERS GO WELL.
SPANIARDS START MAIN STAGE TO-DAY By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. MADRID, January 28. Commander Franco’s seaplane, which flew from the Canaries to the Cape Verde Islands (845 miles) in eleven and a quarter hours, leaves Portogpyraya on Saturday on the third stage to the island of Fernando Noronha., a distance of 1440 miles, which is the most difficult stage of the journey. Commander Franco, head of the Spanish Aviation Force, and Captain Dalds, aboard a twin-engined all-metal Dornier-Wahl hydroplane, left Melilla on a trans-Atlantic flight to Buenos Aires. They hoped to complete the journey in eight days.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17758, 30 January 1926, Page 1
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