WORLD FLIGHT PLANNED
MRS KIRBY-GREEH’S AMBITIONS ATTEMPT OK WILEY POST'S RECORD Fren Association—By Telegr»pL*-Copjright LONDON, June 18. The ‘ Daily Mail ’ says that Mrs Kirby-Green is arranging a round-the-world flight in August. She will attempt to break Wiley Post’s record, flying via Moscow, Irkutsk, the Bering So*, Alaska, New York and thence to London. She will have a co-pilot and eh© expects to cover the distance in five days. [ln July, 1933, the late Wiley Post, of the United States, made a flight round the world in 7d 18h 49jm.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22988, 20 June 1938, Page 9
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89WORLD FLIGHT PLANNED Evening Star, Issue 22988, 20 June 1938, Page 9
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