FROM ITALY TO BRAZIL
ITALIAN AIRMEN'S FEAT,, WORLD RECORD NON-STOR United Press Association—By Electric Tele* Braph—Copyright. Australian Press Association—United Barrteev (Received 6th July, noon.) | RIO DE JANEIRO, sth July. The Italian airmen Ferrarin and Delprete, who left Italy in a Savoia airplane, with 600-h.p. engines, on Tuesday evening, on a non-stop flight to South America, and who were reported passing over the Straits of Gibraltar at 5.15 o'clock the following morning, and who sent a radio message at 8 o'clock on Wednesday; evening that they were nearing the* Cape Verde Islands, landed at 7.50 o'clock on Thursday night on' the beach near Port Natal; •in the Rio Grande del Norte State of Brazil. This completes a world's record nonstop flight of over 6000 miles, the previous record being that of Lieu* tenant Chamberlin, New York W Eisleben (Germany), 3905 miles.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1928, Page 9
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