New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- On 12 February 1925, at five minutes to eight in the morning, Edmond Thieffry, Leopold Roger and Joseph De Bruycker took off for the first flight to the Congo with their plane Princesse Marie-Jose. They arrived in Leopoldville on 3 April. The 100th anniversary of the first flight from Belgium to the Congo was celebrated on 12 February 2025, marking the milestone of a 1925 journey. This was a 51 day flight from Brussels to Leopoldville (now Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo) by aviators Leopold Roger (Pilot), Edmond Thieffry (Pilot), and Jef de Bruycker (Mechanic) in a Handley Page W.8F aircraft called the "Princesse Marie-Jose". The 1925 first flight took 51 days to complete, covering over 8,000 ...