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1928 AVIATION: Captain Barnard and Mary du Caurroy Duchess of Bedford get ready to depart for India
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1:15Now PlayingDate: 1st January 1928
Location: Unknown location
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: Milestones: Duchess of Bedford arrives at Lympne to accompany Captain Barnard and Mr Alliott on "India-and-back-in-8-days' flight
ENGLAND: Kent: Lympne:
Mary du Caurroy, Duchess of Bedford alighting from plane, talking to Captain Barnard and Mr Alliott / Alliott and Barnard talking / Plane being prepared
INTERTITLE: They took with them copies of Gaumont's wonderful film record of 1928 Derby
Holding copies of the film / Close up of film container / Passing film to aviators in plane / Monoplane G-EBTS (Fokker F7A)
INTERTITLE: Another record flight - in three hopes, "Southern Cross" does Honolulu to Australia and on to Fiji (3,200 miles) in 34 hours.
Monoplane
INTERTITLE: The crew:- Captain Kinsford-Smith (Australian) and C.J.P. Ulm (also British)
Close ups of Kinsford-Smith and Ulm
INTERTITLE: With H.W. Lyon and J. Warner (Americans)
Crew posing / Monoplane taking off
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