COBHAM AND WIFE TO FLY ASHORE FROM LINER IN “MOTH” ’PLANE.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, November 25. Sir Alan Cobham and Lady Cobham have arrived, and are in quarantine aboard the liner Homeric. They will fly in a small 'plane to-mor-row over the city, landing at the Battery, where they will be met by the members of the Aeronautical Club and the Chamber of Commerce, then proceeding to a dinner to be given in their honour at the Hotel Waldorf Astoria. Sir Alan Cobham is taking to America a “ Moth ” aeroplane t.o the order of a private purchaser. He intended to leave the steamer when some distance from land and complete the journey by aeroplane, taking some mail bags with him, in order to demonstrate that time could be saved in this way.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18014, 26 November 1926, Page 8
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139COBHAM AND WIFE TO FLY ASHORE FROM LINER IN “MOTH” ’PLANE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18014, 26 November 1926, Page 8
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