WORLD'S RECORD BROKEN.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20776, 9 February 1933, Page 9

WORLD'S RECORD BROKEN.

NON STOP MONOPLANE STII4, FLYING. TRIUMPH FOR AIR FORCE PILOTS. ENGINE GOING WELL. ItIRITBD f?»M ASBOCIATIOS—?T SLfCVBIC ni.EQa*rB —COPUEIOBT.) (Received February 8, 11.45 p.m.) (Received February 9, 2 a.m.) LONDON, February S. Squadron Leader O. E. Gayford and Flight Lieutenant G. E. Nicholetts, in the Royal Air Force Fairey long-range monoplane, have broken the world s nonstop flight record of 5014 miles, formerly held by the Americans, Polando and Boardman. An earlier message read: Squadron Leader Gayford, chief pilot of the monoplane, reports that at 2 a.m. he passed Amrizettc, breaking the existing British record by 170 miles. A Cape Town message gives the position of the Air Force aeroplane at 8 a.m. as 43 miles south by cast ol Beugucla, or roughly 480 miles north of Zesfcntein, where they will break the world record. The aeroplane was going well. VALUE OF FLIGHT TO EMPIRE. SURPRISING DEVELOPMENTS FORESEEN. (Received February 8, 11.10 p."'- 1 LONDON, February &■ Behind the Royal Air Force flight, which cost the Air Ministry much time and money, lies the possibility ol Great Britain leading the world by tii e production of enormous aircralt machines, capable of carrying supplies, passengers, troops, mails, or cargoes to the most distant parts of the Empire. The ideal will bo machines cupabH of carrying a commercial or service ioac) several thousands of miles without a stop, at well over 100 miles an Jj our ' An expert declares that the nighi should be regarded in the same light as the high speed tests of tho Schneider Trophy races, which were largely responsible for Crept Britain s aviation supremacy. Results _ may bo reaped which may be embodied m now 1 designs to produce machines that, will astonish the world. There is plenty of worli for such machines. „ |