FLIGHT ROUND WORLD
FOLLOWING EQUATOR
ROSCOE TURNER'S PLANS
NEW YORK, February 28.
A message from Pittsburgh says that Colonel Roscoe Turner has announced that plans are under way and a special aeroplane is being built for him to make a flight round the world at the Equator next autumn.
The machine will be capable of a speed in excess of 400 miles an hour in the stratosphere, through which the aeroplane will .make its 25,000-mile flight. Clyde Pangborn and Miss Nichols are expected to accompany him. . ■ •
The reason for making the flight is: "It's never been done before.I,'
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Evening Post, Issue 52, 2 March 1935, Page 9
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