ROUND THE WORLD
A NON-STOP FLIGHT
FOUR AND A-HALF DAYS
PANGBOEN'S PROPOSALS
United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received April 15, 11 a.m.) LONDON, April 14. The "Sunday Chronicle" says that Messrs. Clyde Pangborn and Bennett Griffith plan a round-the-world nonstop flight of 4£ days. ,
They will use a two-engined monoplane averaging 200 miles an hour. They propose to start at San Diego and refuel in the air at New York, Moscow, and Chita.
Mr. R. Nichols, . who accompanied Pangborn and Turner in the Centenary Air Race, has been chosen as wireless operator. ' '
In October last Mr. Pangborn announced that he hoped to attack the world's air speed record of 304 miles an hour this summer. He also hoped to make a non-stop round-the-world flight in 104 hours in the Northern Hemisphere. In this world flight he said he would use a Burnelli aeroplane with a range of 8200 miles and a cruising speed of 230. miles an hour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 89, 15 April 1935, Page 9
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158ROUND THE WORLD Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 89, 15 April 1935, Page 9
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