ATLANTIC RECORD
CROSSING BY BRITISH PILOT.
ASSISTED BY A TAIL WIND. 2200 MILES IN 6 HRS. 20 MIX. (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, April 29. A new Atlantic air speed record has been set up by Captain W. S. Way, of the British Overseas Airways Corporation. Flying a Liberator with a maximum all-up load of 56,0001 b, and aided by a tail wind sometimes approaching a velocity of 100 knots, he made a landfall-to-landfall crossing from Newfoundland, 2200 miles, in 6hrs 20min. Operating for the Royal Air Force Transport Company, Captain May flew on to an airfield inside Britain, registering only 7brs 40min from take-off to landing. He Thus reduced by 21 minutes the previous best tarmac-to-tarmac Atlantic flight of eight hours by one minute, accomplished 14- months ago by a pilot officer of a Royal Australian Air Force in a Hudson twinengined bomber.—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 170, 30 April 1943, Page 3
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