RECORD FLIGHT PLANNED
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, March 20. Group Captain E. M. Donaldson, holder of the world’s air speed record of 616 miles an hour, is planning a non-stop record flight from San Francisco to New York in a Meteor. He revealed this yesterday, after being presented with the Britannia trophy, the Premier British aviation award, for his record-breaking flight. “Conditions in America,” he said, “are suitable for such a flight lam certain I could cover the distance (2668 miles) at something approaching 700 miles an hour, and that would be only cruising without rushing ft*
Australian Wool Clip.—-The total value of this season’s wool clip would considerably exceed £90.000,000 if all went well for the rest of the season. said Mr J. F. Murphy, chairman of the Wool Realisation Commission. In addition. Australia would have sold out of stock more than half its initial holding of wool.—Melbourne, March 20.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25139, 21 March 1947, Page 7
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