RECORDS SET BY U.S. BOMBERS
NEW YORK, May 20. Three new feats by its aircraft were revealed by the United States Air Force today. They were: The first jet flight over the North
fll ? t non-stop flight for six-jet 847 bombers across the Atlantic. The breaking of all distance and endurance records for jet aeroplanes by a 847, which last year flew non-stop for more than 12,000 miles—refuelling in night. The flight over the North Pole was accomplished more than a year ago also by a 847 Stratojet. K * The trans-Atlantic flight involved two 847 s. Their average speed for th S. cr ?ssing was 555 miles an hour. The long-distance record was broken in a flight over the southern and western parts of the United States.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27047, 23 May 1953, Page 2
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