MILLIONAIRE FLYER
TRANS-CONTINENTAL RECORD
SUB-STRATOSPHERE FLIGHTS
NEW YORK, August 20,
Howard Hughes, the millionaire aviator and round-the-world flyer, landed here today at 8.56 a.m., having set up a new trans-continental record for a commercial plane of 10 hours 35 minutes 50 seconds. He took off from Los Angeles at 6.21 p.m. yesterday. Hughes is co-operating with the
Mayo Foundation for testing a substratosphere, ultra-light oxygen mask. He plans several trans-continental flights six miles up, disregarding the weather.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 45, 22 August 1938, Page 9
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