WOMAN SETS WORLD AIR RECORD
LONDON. Aug. 29. Miss Letlice Curtis, aged 33, set a new international women’s air speed record of 313.07 miles an hour over a 100 kilometres closed circuit in the Lympne high speed handicap. Miss Curtis, who was the first woman to pilot a British four-engined bomber, flew a Spitfire.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22730, 31 August 1948, Page 5
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