Cabinet to Be Reorganized by Next Month Ottawa, Feb, 16.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Macken- J
Attempt With Four Aeroplanes Next Month: Test of Water Cooled Engines London, Feb. 16, On March 1 four Fairey-Napier biplanes of the Royal Air Force will leave Cairo in an attempt to fly to Capetown and back, Wing-Commander. Fulford will be in command, The outward journey will occupy about six weeks as it. has been decided to remain for a couple of days or more at ch stopping place, If the return flight to Cairo is successful the machines will be fitted with floats and the journey will be continued to England, The route followed will be almost the same as that followed by Mr. Cobham, and it will be interesting to see how the performance of the water cooled Napier engine compares with that of the air cooled feguar machine used by Mr, Cob-
Particular interest will' also be taken in the way the Royal Air Force machines take off from the Bloemfontein aerodrome, 'This, aerodrome is 6,000 feet above sea level, and the rarefied ai and the heat' caused Colonel Van Ryneveld to come to grief here while taking off in 1920, and nearly ended Mr. Cobham's flight, in spite of the that his machine was fitted with an engine vf 200 h.p. more than is normally used to overcome this same problem. may possibly happen that the RAF. flight outward bound will meet Mr. Cobham homeward bound, Incidentally, it is learned that when Mr. Cobham makes. the turn journey to Cairo he intends doing so at the utmost speed he can in the hope of making a record flight—British Wireless through Reuter.
8,000-Mile Trip Completed by British Aviator Cape Town, Feb. 17.
Mr. Allen Cobham arrived here to-da; after completing a classic 8,000-mile flight from London—Reuter,
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