WORLD'S SPEEDIEST CREATURE
Recent study of the flying mechanism of the world’s speediest creature, a South American fly known as Cephenemyia, has suggested the possibility that we may eventually triple the present aeroplane speed record of 300 miles an hour. This would make it possible to fly round the earth in just under thirty hours, travelling at a speed of 810 miles an hour. The Cephenemyia covers 815 miles an hour, or nearly 400 yards a second, and. with tremendous power, stored, in its light-weight body, moves so swiftly that it can only bo seen as a blur.
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Evening Star, Issue 19579, 10 June 1927, Page 10
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98WORLD'S SPEEDIEST CREATURE Evening Star, Issue 19579, 10 June 1927, Page 10
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