FLYING RECORDS.
LONDON, December 4. Captain H. F. Blackburn, chief pilot of the Trans-Continental Airline, had Monday’s supper at Washington and to-night was eating supper at Paris when he learned he had broken three trans-Atlantic commercial flying records on a routine flight,
says Reuter’s Paris correspondent. Captain Blackburn’s “Constellation flew from Washington to Faris, 3870 miles, at an average speed of 316 miles hourly. His flying time was 12 hours 57 minutes. Other records were 11 hours 40 minutes from* Washington to Eire, and six hours 27 minutes from Gandar, Newfoundland, to Eire.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1945, Page 10
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