1. It was a long and dangerous journey. Van Ryneveld and Quintin Brand flew in a plane called the Silver Queen. They 1 from England to Italy. Then, a few days later, they took off again for Egypt. They didn’t stop over the Mediterranean Sea and 2 the next day in Cairo. Eventually, 44 days later, they landed in Cape Town and won.3 , the newspaper didn’t give them £10,000, but only £5,000. This was because they didn’t use the same plane for the whole journey. But it was still an incredible journey. In 1920, a British newspaper offered £10,000 4 from England to South Africa. Five aeroplanes entered the competition, but four aeroplanes didn’t finish the journey. The pilots Pierre Van Ryneveld and Quintin Brand finally landed in Cape Town and won the race. Through Africa, they had a lot of mechanical problems with the plane and its engine. 5 problem was in Bulawayo. The Silver Queen couldn’t take off so in the end they changed their plane for a different one.
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