SPEED RECORD.
CLYDE PANGBOHN’S AIMS. Clyde Pangborn, who, with Colonel Roscoe Turner, flew a Boeing Transport ’plane in the Centenary Air Race, hopes to attack the world’s speed record of 304 miles an hour for land aeroplanes after the race. He is negotiating for the purchase of the Vickers Supermarine, which won the Schnieder Trophy for Britain in 1931. Mr Pangborn said the conversion of the Schneider Trophy ’plane to attempt the record 'would be undertaken largely to. demonstrate the efficiency of the English “in line” engine, which must replace the American radial engines before American speed records could be increased.
His project would not be undertaken before next summer, when he also hoped to make a non-stop roun I-fbe-world flight in 104 hours, round the Northern Hemisphere. He would start from New York and would refuel in the air at Moscow and Chita. Siberia. In this attempt he would ufo a Burnelli ’plane with a range of S2OO miles and a cruising speed of 230 m.p.h.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 287, 1 November 1934, Page 7
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167SPEED RECORD. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 287, 1 November 1934, Page 7
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