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MARCH 35, 1930 THE FLIGHT TO THE CAPE AT last the flight from England to the Cape has been accom-plished, although not by one machine, and the honour has been won by Lieut.-Col. van Ryneveld and Maj. Brand,who completed their task on the De H. machine " Voor- trekker" (Pioneer), the machine placed at their disposalby the South African Government after the crash of the Silver Queen II at Bulawayo. This machine, which hadpreviously flown from Pretoria to Bulawayo in 5 hours q mins., made the journey from Bulawayo to Pretoria on March 17,and on the 20th it arrived safely at Cape Town, a stop being made at Beaufort West. The machine landed in Young'sField, Wynberg. After circling over the city, the pilots were given a most enthusiastic reception by a large crowd,and they were cordially greeted by Lord Buxton, Governor- General of South Africa, and Gen. Smuts. The UnionGovernment has made a grant of ^5,000 to the two officers, and Col. van Ryneveld is reported to have been appointedhead of the Union Air Force. The King has sent the following telegram to Col. vanRyneveld on the completion of the flight from Cairo to Cape Town :— " I send to you and Maj. Brand my hearty congratulations on your very successful flight.—GEORGE R.I." Telegrams of congratulation have also been sent to Col. van Ryneveld by Mr. Churchill (Secretary of State for War and Air), by the Air Council, by Sir F. H. Sykes (Controller- General of Civil Aviation), and by the Under-Secretary of State for Air. The following is a brief diary of the flight of Col. van Ryneveld and Capt. Brand :— February 4.—Silver Queen flies from Brooklands to Turin. February 5.—Rome reached. February 8.—Sollum (Western Egypt; reached after crossing the Mediterranean in a storm, the journey from Taranto taking 14 hours. February 9.—Cairo reached. February 10.—Cairo left at 11^36 p.m. on a non-stop flight to Khartum. February 11.—Silver Queen I crashes at Wadi Haifa. Machine wrecked, but engines salved undamaged. February 16.—Col. van Ryneveld and Capt. Brand return to Cairo. February 22.—New start from Cairo on Silver Queen II, fitted with engines of Silver Queen I. Descent at Wadi Haifa owing to head wind. February 23.—Khartum reached. Machine detained by engine trouble. February 25.—Flight from Khartum to Mongalla. February 26.—Silver Queen II reaches Kisumu (Victoria Nyanza). February 27.—Flight from Kisumu to Shirati (89 miles only. On this day The Times aeroplane crashed at Tabora, 305 miles further south). February 28.—Non-stop flight from Shirati to Abercorn, Northern Rhodesia. February 29.—From Abercorn to N'Dola. March 2.—Livingstone (just above the Victoria Falls) reached. Machine detained by heavy rain. March 5.—Flight from Livingstone to Bulawayo. March 6.—Silver Queen II crashes a mile from Bulawayo when starting for Pretoria. Col. van Ryneveld and Capt. Brand remain at Bulawayo pending arrival of a new machinesent from the Cape. March 17.—Col. van Ryneveld and Capt. Brand leaveBulawayo on the Voortrekker, and fly to Pretoria. CAIRO-CAPE FLIGHT : The pilots who have succeeded in covering the entire distance between Cairo and the Cape by way of the air. Right—Lieut .-Col. P. van Ryneveld, D.S.O., M.C. Left—Capt. C. J. 0- Brand, D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C. March 20.—Voortrekker leaves Bloemfontein, and reaches Cape Town, 5,206 miles from Cairo by the air route." Capts. Cockerell and Broome, the pilots of The Times machine are now on the way back to England. The frame- work and cabin of the wrecked Vickers-Vimy machine have been taken over by the Tabora Sporting Club for use as a pavilion, but the engines are being sent back to England. PROHIBITED AREAS IN INDIA As mentioned recently, the regulations for civil aviation in India follow closely on the lines of those which have been adopted in the United Kingdom. They have just been published in the Gazette of India, and the chief point of interest is in respect to the prohibited areas, which are as follows :— The River Indus is to be the northern boundary of civil flying, save for certain portions of the Peshawar and Derajat districts ; the triangular area enclosed between the Karachi- Kotri railway and the right bank of the Indus below Kotri; and two " corridors." One of these is 20 miles wide from Sukkur (exclusive) to Quetta, following the general line of the North-Western Railway ; the other, a corridor 20 miles •wide along the Mekran coast. All territory lying within three miles of the Arsenal at Quetta and within five miles of the lighthouse at Manora (near Karachi) is to be avoided ; also all territory lying within three miles of the south point of the Colaba promontory Bombay ; of Fort Chingri Khal, near Diamond Harbour, Calcutta ; and of the arsenals at Rawalpindi, Ferozepur, and Kirkee. Other prohibitions relate to :— " - The Kidderpore Docks, the jetties, the site of the new King George's Docks, Calcutta; also the River Hooghly, between the Botanical Gardens and Howrah Bridge, Calcutta. Viceregal Lodge, Delhi (one mile limit). Budge Budge petroleum depot. ^ \. Powder magazine at Moyapore. The Syriam Pagoda, Rangoon (seven miles limit), and the oil refineries at Syriam, on the Pegu river, and at Seikkyi and Thilawa, on the Rangoon river. The Singu and Yenangyaung oilfields, in the Magwe, district, Burma. 346
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