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Title: | My flight down Africa 10-13 February 1936 |
Authors: | Rose, Tommy |
Keywords: | Air pilots -- Africa -- Personal narratives Air pilots -- Anecdotes Endurance flights -- History -- 20th century |
Issue Date: | 2014-08 |
Publisher: | Malta Philatelic Society |
Citation: | Rose, T. (2014). My flight down Africa 10-13 February 1936. Journal of the Malta Philatelic Society, 43(2), 35-36. |
Abstract: | I landed at Cape Town as fresh as a daisy despite a series of adventures during my record flight from England, unequally by anything in my twenty-one years' flying experience. At least three times during the past three days I felt that all was up with me, and that so far from breaking the record I should break my neck. Over the Mediterranean, in the Soudan, and again in Rhodesia, I went through adventures which I do not want to endure again. In these days of safe and easy flying I scarcely feel inclined to tell the full story of them for fear that my friends might think I was "shooting a line of tripe." And I realised then that I could not have succeeded but for the marvellous support of my machine and engine, considering the really terrible weather conditions that I encountered at various stages of the flight. Horrifying weather on Saturday evening, just about twenty-four hours before I reached Cape Town, made me certain that my flight was prematurely ended. Here came the greatest adventure of the trip. [excerpt] |
Description: | With acknowledgements to 'The Cape Argus', 'Cape Times' and Messrs. C. C. Wakefield & Co., Ltd. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/64971 |
Appears in Collections: | JMPS - 2014 - 43(2) |
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