LONG FLIGHT PLANNED.
Air Ministry will Test New Monoplane. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, August 18. The first of the long-distance flights planned by the Air Ministry for the autumn will probably start from Cranwell, Lincolnshire, on September 24, when an attempt will be made to reach Khartoum in a non-stop flight, with the object of testing the new Fairey monoplane and its Napier-Lion engine in African temperatures and atmospheric conditions. It is hoped, after a flight into the Sudan, to undertake a non-stop journey to the Cape, which would incidentally restore to Great Britain the distance record recently taken from France by the American airmen, who flew 5000 miles from New York to Constantinople. From Cranwell to Cape Town is a distance of 5900 miles.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 197, 20 August 1931, Page 1
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