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1929
1929 - 0489.PDF
MARCH 7. 1923 African Service Flight THE R.A.F. Fairey IIIFs. (Napier " Lions ") engaged on the annual flight from Cairo to Cape Town and back, reached Pretoria on March 3. They have been co-operating with the 4th King's African Rifles. The squadron carrying out this flight is No. 47.Squadron for Basra Leaves THE squadron of three R.A.F. Supermarine " South- ampton " (Napier) flying boats left Cattewater, Plymouth, for Basra on February 28. In command was Wing-Com- manderT. E. B. Howe, owing to Group-Captain H. R. Busteed being indisposed. After taxying from the Cattewater break- water across the Sound to Cawsand Bay, the flying-boats were on the water for over an hour before taking-off. The town was circled and then a course was set across the Channel for Hourtin, near Bordeaux. On March 1 they called at the air port of Benc in the afternoon on their stage from Hourtin and Lorient. They were due to continue to Naples on March 2. The personnel of the squadron, which will be stationed at Basra for two years, is as follows :—Wing-Commander T. E. B. Howe, Flight-Lieut. G. L. Gandy, P.O. R. F. Shenton, and Corporal G. W. Emony in flying-boat No. 1,299 ; Sqdn.- Ldr. R. M. Bayley, F.O. W. G. Abrams, Sergt. T. W. Hamlin and Leading Aircraftsman K. G. Major in No. 1,298 ; and Flight-Lieut. W. J. Daddo-Langlois, F.O. H. F. G. Southey, Flight-Sergt. R. NVhittow and Aircraftsman W. Swann in No. 1,000. Flight to China ON March 2, Mr. Wen Lin, a Chinese airman, and Mr. Christian Johannsen, a Dane, set out on a flight to China in an Avro " Avian " (" Cirrus "), one of the fourteen " Avian " machines ordered by a flying school in Nanking. The coast was crossed between Lympne and Dover in a stiff head wind. Whilst over the Channel engine trouble developed and they turned back. The machine lost height from 2,000 ft. as thev approached Dover, but a landing was attempted just inland, when a gust of wind caught the machine and tipped it on its propeller. A new propeller was sent for and the flight wa> resumed safely via Amsterdam on March 4. The proposed course is via Berlin, Prague, Constantinople, then across Asia Minor and Irak to India and China. French Air Mail Flight Fails. ON the last lap of a rapid flight to Saigon, Indo-Chiaa, from Paris, the French airmen, M. Paillard, Lieut, le Brix and M. Jousse (mechanic) crashed at the Gulf of Martaban on February 26 on the shore about 122 miles from Rangoon, which they had left to reach Saigon. This occurred when attempting a landing on what appeared to be sandy beach but proved to be quagmire. The machine, a Bernard cabin monoplane (450 h.p. Lorraine Dietrich engine), sank and the crew were imprisoned. Villagers assisted them, and the mail and some of the luggage were also rescued, but the machine was washed away. The mechanic was injured in the leg and Le Brix suffered minor injuries, but M. Paillard [" FLIGHT " Photograph APPRECIATION: The Blackburn ••Iris" flying-boat with Rolls Royce "Condor" engines. Arrangementshave recently been completed for building trie " Iris" in the United States. It is also believed that this machine is the type referred to by Sir Samuel Hoare in connection with a new flying-boat squadron. 195
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