AVIATION
FLIGHT ACROSS AMERICA
SPEED RECORD BROKEN.
NEW YORK, September 25. Colonel Roscoe Turner broke the west to east transcontinental speed record by ISJmin, negotiating the distance from Burbank (Califoria) to the Floyd Bennett Field (New York);, a distance of 2520 miles, in lOhr sJmin. Colonel Turner flew a 900 h.p. lowwing monoplane, his top speed being 316 miles an hour. '
COLONEL AND MRS LINDBERGH,
ARRIVAL AT MOSCOW.
MOSCOW, September 25. Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh have arrived here.
DOCTOR FLIES TO PATIENT.
CALCUTTA, September 20.
(Received Sept.. 26, at 11.30 p.m.) The Harley street specialist, Mr H. S. Souttar, and his assistants reached Ahmedabad yesterday and Bombay this morning.. They will decide whether the ulcerated tongue of the Crown Princess of Nepal needs an operation. ; Owing to the heavy load of surgical instruments the plane kept to the laud route and was delayed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22069, 27 September 1933, Page 7
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