The Archive · 1930

London to Tangiers and Back

London, Aug. 26.

Captain Barnard, the famous Brit ish aviator, left Lympne Aerodrome at dawn yesterday and made a nonstop flight in a light Puss Moth monoplane to Tangier, where he spent the night. He left Tangier at 7.30 this morning and arrived at the Croydon Aerodrome at 6.25 this afternoon. Thus Captain Barnart flew 2480 miles from England to Africa and back inside of 36 hours.

On July 31, Captain Barnard ace complished the first non-stop flight from England to Malta in a Puss Moth monoplane in 13 hours—Reuter,

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