Return Trip Completed Within the Week by the Spider London, Aug. 9.
The huge blue monoplane Spider, which hopped off from Lympne before dawn on August 2 attempt to make a flight to India and back within a week, arrived Croydon at 5.30 this afternoon.
The Spider reached Karachi at 655 p.m. on August 6 and started on its return flight at 6 a.m. on the 6th.
'The enterprise was sponsored by the Duchess of Bedford, who travelled in the plane. Captain' Barnard acted as pilot while Little was the mechanic—Reuter.
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