REMARKABLE FLIGHTS
NEW GERMAN MACHINE CIRCUIT OF 3900 MILES JOURNEY TAKES 24 HOURS (Received September 5.5 p.m.> BERLIN. Sept. 3 A new type of two-engined Siebel aeroplane? alighted at Tempelhof aerodrome at 1 a.m. to-day, having completed a 24 hours' flight with brief stops over a circuit embracing London, Paris, Home, Bucharest, Warsaw and Stockholm. The distance was .3900 miles and the speed averaged 162 miles an hour.
FEAT BY RUSSIAN
10,250 MILES COVERED
TRIP IN MAIL MACHINE (Received September 4, 5.5 p.m.) MOSCOW, Sept. 3 Flying in a mail aeroplane, a Russian named Tyutyae, covered the distance between Moscow and Vladivostok and back, 10,250 miles, in 54 hours.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23134, 5 September 1938, Page 9
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