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/<• FEBRUARY 23, 1928 African Survey Flight SIR ALAN COBHAM carried out his special contract for a return flight between Lake Victoria and Khartum with great success. It was carried out at the request of the East African Governments and Colonial Office, in order to complete the undertaking of the Blackburn Aeroplane Co. in connection with the formation of a permanent service. From Entebbe to Khartum and back was flown in four days, covering a distance of 2,700 miles. The longest stage of 820 miles, from Khartum to Mongalla, was completed in 8 hrs. 40 mins. Sir Alan Cobham is now at Nairobi, and attended a conference at which the establishment of an East-African air service was discussed. Sir Edward Grigg (Governor of Kenya), Sir W. F. Gowers (Governor of Uganda), and Sir George Schuster (representing the Sudan) were also present. Finance is the chief difficulty, but it is reported that a satisfactory basis of agreement has been reached. Sir Alan Cobham expressed the opinion that in a year after the completion of negotiations the Alexandria-Kenya section of the air route from Cairo to the Cape would be opened, but the whole route would not be running for three years yet. On February 19, Sir Alan attended the Colony's first flying meeting, at which four privately-owned machines competed. The D.H.9 Tour FLYING Officers J. S. Newall and N. Vintcent, who left London on a flight to the East on January .9 in two D.H.9 machines, arrived at Cairo on February 17. They were caught in a violent sandstorm in the desert on February 16, forced to descend, and wait for three hours until it cleared. Great Flying Boat CruiseTHE four R.A.F. Supermarine " Southampton " flying boats reached Penang from Mergui, Burma, on February 16having flown the distance of 500 miles in seven hours. They are remaining at Penang for a week.Flight to the North Pole ON February 13, Capt. G. Wilkins and his pilot, Lieut.Eileson, left Seattle to prepare for another attempt by air upon the North Pole. This will be his third effort. In theeariy spring they hope to fly from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen. He has taken a new aeroplane with him, andsufficient supplies for six months. New York-Bucharest Attempt LIEUT. G. FERNICO, a former officer of the RoumanianFlying Corps, is proposing to fly from New York to Bucharest, and is now engaged in constructing a special machine for thepurpose. Ice Dam Bombed ICE dams on the Vistula in Poland were bombed by asquadron of aeroplanes recently after the river awoke from its winter sleep.Lindbergh Will Fly COL. LINDBERGH will not listen to the appeals beinglaunched in America requesting him to give up flying, and a promise was made by Mr. Davis, Secretary for War, to use hisinfluence. The agitation was provoked by his long flight to St. Louis from Havana at the end of his recent " goodwilltour " in South America, in the course of which he became two hours overdue owing to very bad weather prevailing. THF AR1USTRONG-SIDDELEY ABROAD: Two successful Fokker-Armstrong Siddeley combinations.AWe if the Fokker Trainingbiplane, which is fitted with the 150 h.p. « Mongoose » engine. Below is the Above is the Fokker^Training^ p^ machinC) which is fitted with the 385 h.p. » Jaguar." 123
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