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*Capt. Lancaster bought the "Southern Cross Minor" a single engine Avro Avian, formerly owned by Charles Kingsford Smith.
He set out in April 1933 in a bid to break Amy Johnson's London-Cape Town solo record. Flying into the Sahara against head winds he vanished.
29 years later in 1962, a French camel patrol found the aircraft with the mummified body of Capt. Lancaster beside it. He had died of thirst.

Acknowledgement: Photos & history generously supplied by Gwyn Williams.

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