GREAT SEAPLANE FEAT.
OVER 22S MILES AN HOUR, RECORD FOR THE WORLD. LONDON. Oct. 6. It is ofacial'.y announced that prior to his departure for America, Pilot Baird.. who, with Pilot Broad, and the Australian j Bert Hinckler, will compete for the i Schneider Cup, secretly established a j world's seaplane record, of 226? miles an j hour. Pilot Baird was flying a super marine Napier, which he will use in the Schneider Cup—the international event for seaplane racing, won by America from Britain in j 1925.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19148, 14 October 1925, Page 11
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