AIR SPEED RECORD
RATE OF 350 MILES AN HOUR. AN AMERICAN LAND ’PLANE. United Press Association —Copyright) SAN FRANCISCO, September 14. Mr Howard Hughes, the millionaire cinema producer, set a world’s record speed for land aeroplanes at Los Angeles to-day, taking a low-wing monoplane six times over a measured course at speeds of 352, 337, 350, 340, 350, and 355 miles an hour. Although the timings must be checked to be declared official, he has undoubtedly bettered the mark of 314.319 miles an hour, established by Delmotte. Mr William Enyart (secretary ot the contest board of the National Aeronautics Association) announced that after final calibration of camera films of the speed trials the association has asked that Mr Hughes should be officially credited with the new world’s speed record of 352.46 miles an hour for land aeroplanes. Mr Enyart said this represented Mr Hughes’s average for Ins two best runs in opposite directions. The monoplane, which cost 120,UU dollars, had a 14-cylinder 1000' horsepower engine. . Mr Hughes was forced to land m a beet field, ploughing up the beets for 60 yards, on his final flight when he ran 'out of petrol, the motor failing to take a fresh supply from the auxiliary tank
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 286, 16 September 1935, Page 5
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