WORLD RECORD.
Flight by British Gliding Experts. ALOFT FOR OVER 22 HOURS. (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, July 10. Two British gliding experts, participating in the national gliding contest at Dunstable, Bedfordshire, ascended at 4.9 a.m. on Saturday, and landed at 2.20 a.m. on Sunday, having broken the world two-seater record of 21 hours 2 minutes held by Germany. They also broke the British record, for any glider, of 13 hours 7 minutes. The names of the flyers are FlightLieut. W. B. Murray, stationed at Franborough, and Stanley Sproule, an aircraft engineer.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 161, 11 July 1938, Page 9
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