AIR RACE ROUND WORLD
AMERICANS OFF THE MARK FIRST.
(SYDNEY SUN CABLE.)
(Received 18th March, 2.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, 17th March. _iour American air cruisers started from Santa Monica at dawn to-day on a thirty-thousand miles journey round the world, under the command of. Major Frederick Martin, with Pilots Smith, Wade, and Nelson.
It is proposed to make stops at Sacramento, Portland, Seattle, and Prince Rupert on the land.route, and thence to Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and via Japan and Asia. -Major Martin aims at completing his trip ahead of the three English fliers scheduled to leave London on Wednesday, and four machines leaving Lisbon on the same mission a few weeks later.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 66, 18 March 1924, Page 8
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