CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922 — Page 296

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MINUTES.

MINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.

fo.: REGENT 2000,

Topic Address: "AIRMINISTRY, LONDON."

(A1) telegrama on the subset of this letter, should goats the undermentioned Air Ministry Refe.)

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AIR MINISTRY,

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LONDON, W.C. 2.

February, 1922

All letters on the undermentioned subject should be addressed to THE SECRETARY at the above address and should quote:

Air Ministry Refce, 321265/22/c.G.C.A.

SUBJECT:-

sir,

Your Refce.

Proposed flight round the World.

I am commanded by the Air Council to state, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that it is proposed to attempt a flight round the world about the middle of April of this year. The machine to be used will be a Vickers "Viking" Amphibian and the personnel will consist of Sir Ross Smith (pilot), Sir Keith Smith (navigator) and James Bennett (mechanic).

As at present arranged the machine will fly by the following route:-

Lyons

Rome

Athens

France

Italy

Greece

Sollum

Cairo

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Amman

Egypt

Palestine

Baghdad

Basra

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Iraq.

Bunder Abbas

Persia

Karachi

Delhi

Allahabad

India

Calcutta

Mandalay

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

S.W.1.