SPEED IN THE AIR.
LORD NUFFI ELD'S HOPE. LONDON, Jan. 12. It is lioped by Viscount Nuffield to regain the world speed record for Britain with a specially built aeroplane. The journal Aeroplane reveals that the machine is being built by the Heston Aircraft Company. It will be a monoplane, powered by a liquid-cooled motor. Mr A. E. Hagg, designer of the D.H. Comet, designed the machine. A speed of 500 miles an hour may be attained, it is suggested.
The existing record of 440. G miles an hour was established in 1934 by Francesco Agello, of Italy, in a seaplane.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 21 January 1939, Page 9
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101SPEED IN THE AIR. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 21 January 1939, Page 9
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