On November 20, 1924, Alan Cobham set out from Croydon in a DH.50 to survey a route for regular air services to India and Burma.
The journey to Rangoon was made without serious trouble. On the return flight he was forced down by a snowstorm in the Back Forest, Germany. Impossible to takeoff from where he landed, Cobham had the DH.50 taken to pieces and moved to a field nearby. Then it had been put back together, he flew it home to London.
In 1925 Cobham tookoff from London for South Africa to survey a route for Imperial Airways. With him were his mechanic, Arthur Elliott, and a cameraman, Emmott. The flight was without mishap.
Cobham flew back from Capetown in fifteen days. This was the first flight from South Africa to England and a vast crowd greeted him when he landed at Croydon.
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