FEATS OF AVIATION
FRANCE TO MADAGASCAR RETURN FLIGHT COMPLETED PARIS, Nov. 20. French airmen to-day completed two magnificent feats. M, Bailly, a wealthy young enthusiast, who devotes himself to aviation, with Riginensi Marsot, completed a flight from Madagascar, flying there in 23 days, including a six days’ halt at Madagascar. M. Bailly planned to return via the Nile Valley, but M. Laureut-Eynac, Minister of of Air, urged him. to prove that the outward journey of eight days five hours was not due to chance. He therefore returned from Antananarivo (Madagascar) in regular stages in the same time, 52 hours less than the flight carried out last month, as compared with 74 days taken by M. Dagnaux, pioneer of the Madagascar route in 1927. It is expected that M. Bailly’s “Antananarivo Express” will be the forerunner of regular services. The second performance was that of Captain Costes and Bellconte, the longdistance record-breakers, who flew from Hanoi (indo_China) and arrived at Rome in four days.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 287, 3 December 1929, Page 8
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