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(British Official Wifeless.) BtTGBY, 16th March. An inquest was held at Calshot yesterday on. Flight-Lieutenant Kinkead. i Specimens of blood have been sent to the laboratory to be tested for poisbning. .. .. ■■"'-.-,■ '■ .''." Kinkead while testing the Supermarine Napier S5 seaplane at Calshot officially reported he attained a speed of 330 miles per-hour.' -Kinkead reported. that with a longer distance he: would bo able to reach 340 miles per .hour.. The flight of. 330 miles per Boor cannot, however, stand-; as a record, as it was not subject to official test. Kinkead "will .be with foil military honours .'this' afternoon.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 65, 17 March 1928, Page 9
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