COMMERCIAL FLIGHT.
MR. BLACK AT CROYDON.
TWO NEW RECORDS MADE.
(Received July 26, 7.40, p.jn.) i • Sun. LONDON. July 25,
The Baltimore newspaper proprietor, Mr. Van Lear Black, who has flown from Loudon to India and back, landed at Croydon to-day from Amsterdam. ,JMr. Black's flight totalled 18,600 miles —a record distance for a plane with a passenger. He also made record time from Europe to India, namely, nine days, compared with Sir Samuel Hoare's previous record of 11 days.
This is regarded as a striking illustra tion of the commercial -yal Uo of longdistance air transport. Mr. Black flew on 13 days out of the 16 days which the journey occupied.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19699, 27 July 1927, Page 11
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