RECORD BROKEN BY U.S. MILLIONAIRE FOR WORLD FLIGHT

Grey River Argus, 17 April 1947, Page 4

RECORD BROKEN BY U.S. MILLIONAIRE FOR WORLD FLIGHT

NEW YORK, April 15. The- millionaire amateur airman, Milton Reynolds, arrived at Edmonton airport after his 2619-mile flight from Adak. The journey took eight hours 31 minutes, which is 61 minutes longer than he estimated. Reynolds’s elapsed time on arrival at Edmonton was 70 hours 44 minutes1 —20 hours less than Howard Hughes’s time for the complete round-the-world flight. (Rec. 9.56). NEW YORK, April 16. The “Bombshell” landed at the La Guardia airport, breaking the record for round-the-world by six hundred and seventy-nine minutes. A crowd of two thousand broke through the police lines to the airmen, who were met by Customs officials and health authorities, who planned to vaccinate them against smallpox. Municipal ;officials welcomed them on behalf of New York city. Nobody has made a world flight under conditions specified by the Federation Aeronautique International. The fastest unofficial global flight hitherto has been that of the millionaire Howard Hughes in July 1938, over 14,824 miles- in ninety-one hours fourteen minutes. Hughes flew over European Russia and Siberia, but the Soviet Union declined to permit Milton Reynolds use of a similar route. The Soviet explained that Russia’s reconstruction problems were sc- great that no technicians would be available to service the flight. JET-PROPELLED RACE LONDON, April 14. A jet-propelled aircraft. race between Paris and Cannes will be staged on May 25. Britain, France and the United States probably will compete. The race will provide the first opportunity of comparing the British Gloster Meteor IV, holder of the world speed record of 616 miles an hour, and the United States Shooting Star. ( ■ - A trophy known as the Montana Cup and a prize of £lOOO is offered for ‘the 420-mile race.