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dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-01T08:09:08Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-12-01T08:09:08Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014-08 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Rose, T. (2014). My flight down Africa 10-13 February 1936. Journal of the Malta Philatelic Society, 43(2), 35-36. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/64971 | - |
dc.description | With acknowledgements to 'The Cape Argus', 'Cape Times' and Messrs. C. C. Wakefield & Co., Ltd. | en_GB |
dc.description.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] | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Malta Philatelic Society | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Air pilots -- Africa -- Personal narratives | en_GB |
dc.subject | Air pilots -- Anecdotes | en_GB |
dc.subject | Endurance flights -- History -- 20th century | en_GB |
dc.title | My flight down Africa 10-13 February 1936 | en_GB |
dc.type | contributionToPeriodical | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | N/A | en_GB |
dc.publication.title | Journal of the Malta Philatelic Society | en_GB |
dc.contributor.creator | Rose, Tommy | - |
Appears in Collections: | JMPS - 2014 - 43(2) |
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