England-Cape Town Flight

Abstract

MR. ALEX HENSHAW had made a new record for the round flight between Gravesend and Cape Town when he returned to Gravesend at 1.61 p.m. on February 9. The total journey of nearly 12,000 miles was made in 4 days 10 hours 16 minutes, thus improving by 1 day 6 hours 44 minutes on the previous record set up by Mr. A. E. Clouston and Mrs. Kirby Green. The Percival Mew Gull aeroplane showed no serious signs of damage and the 200-h.p. Gipsy Six engine was still in good condition at the end of the flight. The times for the journey out and that for the return flight, namely, both about thirty-nine hours, are also records.