NEW AIR-SPEED RECORD
352.46 Miles an Hour
U.S. MILLIONAIRE’S FEAT
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14.
Howard Hughes, millionaire motion picture producer, set a world speed record for land aeroplanes to-day, taking a 14-cyliiider low-winged monoplane six times over a measured course at speeds 252, 337, 350, 340, 350 and 353 miles an hour.
Althwgh the timings must be checked to be declared official, he undoubtedly bettered the mark of 314.319 miles an hour established by Deimette, France.
Mr William Enyart, secretary of the contest board of the National Aeronautics Association, announced that final calibration of camera films of the speed trials of Mr Hughes has prompted the association to ask that Mr Hughes be officially credited with a new world speed record of 352.46 miles an hour for land aeroplanes.
Mr Enyart said that this represented Mr Hughes’s average on the two best north and south trials near Santa Ana in his 120,000-dollar monoplane. His top speed was 355.38 miles an hour. Mr Hughes was forced to land in a beet field, ploughing up beets for 60 yards, on the final flight, when he ran out of gasoline, the motor failing to take a fresh supply from the auxiliary tank.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 231, 16 September 1935, Page 9
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