Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/February in aviation/February 4
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- 1920 - Pierre van Ryneveld and Quentin Brand set out in a Vickers Vimy from Cairo to cross Africa by air from North to South. They will arrive in Cape Town on March 20.
- 1902 - First balloon flight in Antarctica when Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton ascend to 244 metres in a tethered hydrogen balloon to take the first Antarctic aerial photographs.
