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Endurance Flight Attempt London, August 11. After being aloft 54 hours 13 minutes, and flying 4320 miles, Mrs. Victor Bruce, who attempted to break the world endurance flight record, descended at Felixstowe at seven o’clock tonight owing to engine oil being overheated. She broke the British record, which stood at 50 hours 39 minutes. An official wireless message says that one most interesting feature of the flight is the new method employed for passing fuel and other supplies to the plane from two attendant machines. These machines, joined by a cord, fly ahead of the seaplane until it comes between them, enabling the cord to be seized. A pipe line from the tanker plane is then drawn aboard. The development of a sound method of refuelling in the air would probably greatly assist commercial aviation by considerably raising the pay load.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 273, 13 August 1932, Page 11
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