1928 Record flight Lieut. Pat Murdoch, SAAF, in an Avro Avian III G-EBVU Started from Croydon at 5 p.m. on July 29 Time: 14 days. "We understand that before his departure Lieut. Murdock consulted Sir Alan Cobham regarding the flight." Took off September 12 to make his way back, but crashed at Elizabethville, Belgian Congo, on October 18; he was uninjured, but wrote off the aeroplane. |