THE DORNIER D.O.X.
PROGRESS OF FLIGHT LONDON, May 8. The flying boat (Dornier Do.X. left Bissagos Islands to-day for Fernando. BETTER WEATHER AWAITED Received Alay 10, 5.5 p.m. ST. VINCENT, May 9. The DO.X has returned to Bissagos Islands and is awaiting better weather. The Bissagos Islands are a group of about thirty islands on the west coast of Africa, opposite the mouths of the Rio Grande and the Rio de Geba. Fernao do Noronha is an island in the South Atlantic about 125 miles from the eastern extremity of Brazil, to which it belongs. The distance between the two groups is approximately 1600 miles, over water without any intervening islands.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 109, 11 May 1931, Page 7
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