Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across Cranwell Airdrome, near Lincoln, England, stretches a mile-long runway. It was built four years ago by the Royal Air Force to launch a giant monoplane on a nonstop flight to Cape Town...
...third day the flyers picked up the coastline, had only to follow it as far as they could: Fuel ran low, so they landed at Walfish ("Whalefish") Bay, 770 mi., short of Cape Town. Total distance: 5,340 mi., a non-stop distance record. Flying time...
...Lady Mary Bailey, English flyer, at Tahoua, French West Africa. She had been trying to fly from England to Cape Town, was for several days thought killed...
British female flyers kept searching parties busy last week. Misses Joan Page and Audrey Sale-Barker, making a leisurely flight from Cape Town to England, lost themselves in low clouds over Nairobi. A stiff wind blew them off-course, crashed their plane into a boulder-studded ridge. For two days planes from Nairobi scoured the wild Kenya country, finally spotted the wreck. Meanwhile Miss Sale-Barker, searching for water, had encountered a Masai headsman, sent him to Nairobi with a note written with lipstick. Rescuers took out Miss Sale-Barker by automobile, Miss Page, whose leg was broken, by plane...
Meanwhile Lady Bailey, seasoned pilot, wife of Sir Abe Bailey, diamond tycoon, was missing in the Sahara. She had been trying to break Amy Johnson Mollison's record of 4 days 7 hr. from London to Cape Town. French army planes found her the fifth day, in desolate country southeast of Gao. She was suffering from thirst, exhaustion, influenza...