EXHAUSTED AIRMEN.
FLYING FOR OVER 26 HOURS. A STRAIGHT FLIGHT RECORD. LONDON. June 2S. Captain Arrachafc and his brother, who left Paris yesterday to attempt a non-stop flight to India, came down at Basra, on the Persian Gnlf, after flying 2714 miles in 26£ hours. The aerop'iauo carried sufficient fuel for another 14 hours' flying, but- the pilots were compelled to descend owing to extreme exhaustion. They could not. keep awake. They broke the "straight flight record by 744 mile* , -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19372, 6 July 1926, Page 11
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