AVIATION
THIRTY-SIX HOUR FLIGHT. Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. NEW YORK, April 18. Received April 19, at 9.25 a.m. At Dayton, Ohio, Lieutenants Macready and Kelelcy, flying in a Fokker monoplane, set "a new record for sustained flight—viz., thirty-six hours five minutes. The trial was made on a thirty-one mile course, and a speed of seventy miles an hour was maintained.—A. and N.Z. Cable. SYDNEY, April 19. Received April 19, at 9.10 a.m. The newspapers here are featuring Dr Bohn’s exploit of aoroplaning aboard the Manuka after her departure from Auckland. [Dr Bohn, a Chautauqua lecturer, mistook the time of the vessel’s departure, arriving on the wharf forty minutes after the Manuka had called. He set after her in a launch, from which he was picked up by a seaplane, overtaking the liner some twelve miles out.]
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Evening Star, Issue 18254, 19 April 1923, Page 6
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135AVIATION Evening Star, Issue 18254, 19 April 1923, Page 6
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