Interesting Cargo Flight by Welt Known Aeroplane London, June 19.
The aeroplane Princess Xenia, piloted by Captain C, D. Barnard and Flying Officer E. H. Alliott, with the Duchess of Bedford as a Passenger, and carrying a large cargo, including a film of the De by, started on a flight from Lympne, Kent, to India at 4.30 this morning. Later.
The Princess Xenia is the machine in which Ouptain Mcintosh and Col, Fitzmaurice attempted to cross the Atlantic Inst year and the same plane in which Capt. MeTutosh and Bert Hinkler made a nonstop flight to Poland.
The aviators are making the Aight in four hops—Sofia, Aleppo, Bushire and Karachi—with a view to demonstrating the practicability of an eight-day fight to India and back.
The cargo, the weight of which is two and a half tons, is the first Brit'sh air cargo to India, It consists particularly of food, cigarettes, and a film of Derby, which will be displayed at Karachi—Reuter,
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