FLYING
AMBITIOUS VENTURE OF SPANISH AIRMAN. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Tuesday, 5.55 a.m.) MADRID, Monday. The Spanish trans-Atlantic flier, Captain Ignacio Jiminez, plans to leave in February on an ambitious 40,000 miles flight in a Puss Moth aeroplane, including the circumnavigation of Africa and Australia, and thence the Par East, returning to Madrid in May.
PUT TO NOVEL USE. (Received Tuesday, 10.55 a.m.) BERLIN, Monday. A Moth aeroplane was put to novel use by two young scientists named Sehultze and Zimmer. They fitted to it a miniature laboratory, and made a 15,000 miles flight to Central Africa to study plants, insects, bacteriology and anthropology.
RECORD FOR WOMAN. (Received Tuesday, 10.55 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Mrs 11. Bonney, of Brisbane, accomplished the longest flight undertaken by a woman in Australia, when she flew solo from Brisbane to Wangarattn, a distance of 1300 miles, in her own Gipsy Moth.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 December 1931, Page 5
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