ROUND-WORLD FLIGHT
"WOMAN TO SEEK RECORD a,m.) NEW YORK. April 27. V.'Mrs. Dianne Converse Cyrus, aged 25, •announced in Ventura, California, today that she will take off in July on a round-the-world solo flight which no Woman has so far accomplished. i-.-She will attempt to break the record of 73 hours 5 minutes 11 seconds set by Captain W. P. Odom. Mrs. Cyrus, who is only five feet two inches, is the widow of a bomber pilot shot down over Belgium. She has been working as a co-pilot on an air freight line* ■
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22623, 28 April 1948, Page 5
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93ROUND-WORLD FLIGHT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22623, 28 April 1948, Page 5
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