AIR SPEED RECORD.
BRITISH MACHINE TESTED. (BI CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIBIBHT.) (AUBTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, March 11. Flight-Lieutenant Kinkead made a successful seventeen minutes' trial in a machine which hitherto has not been flown. g He says that it worked perfectly and he is confident that it will exceed a speed of 300 miles an hour. It was a curious phenomenon that the machine appeared to beat its own sound, which always seemed to be 100 yards behind.
[The speed record for aeroplanes is at present held by Italy, but FlightLieutenant Kinkead will attempt to heat it in a machine similar to that with which Britain won the Schneider Cup.]
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19258, 13 March 1928, Page 9
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