RECORD FLYING
HIGH-SPEED PLANES, Press Associotion—By Telegraph—Copyright . NEW YORK, October 14. (Received Oct. 15, at 11.35 p.m.) At Mount Clemens, Michigan, Lieutenant R. L. Maughan, piloting an army Curtis’s high-speed pursuit ’nlane, won the Pulitzer special trophy, travelling IbU miles at 207 miles per hour. This is a new speed record. Lieutenant Maitland, piloting a sister ’plane, was second. He also established a world’s record, travelling 50 kilometres at 216 1-10 miles per hour. The hundred and two hundred kilometres records were also broken by various fivers.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18686, 16 October 1922, Page 5
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90RECORD FLYING Otago Daily Times, Issue 18686, 16 October 1922, Page 5
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