World Flier’s Hope
NEW YORK, July 16,
Continuing his remarks to a reporter, Mr Hughes, who made a round the world record flight, said: “The plane is fast because it is the product of oyer 200,000 hours’ engineering efforts. Now, if this flight has '
done a little to show that American engineers can design, and American workmanship can build, just as fine aeroplane engines and equipment as anyone in the world, and if it should possibly increase the sale of American planes abroad, and thus create a few new jobs for American men in the aircraft factories of the United States, then I shall feel well repaid.” The revised official figures for the flight show that his time was 3 days 19 hours 8 minutes 10 seconds. No official flying time figures have been issued, but it was approximately 71 hours in the air.
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Northern Advocate, 18 July 1938, Page 7
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