ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
AIR SPEED RECORD BROKEN RUGBY, Apl. 29. A new Atlantic air speed record has been set up by Captain W. S. May, of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, flying a Liberator with a maximum all-Up load of 56,000 pounds and aided by a tailwind sometimes approaching 100 knots. He made a land-fall-to-landfall crossing from Newfoundland (2200 miles) in six hours 20 minutes.
Operating for the R.A.F. Transport Command, Captain May flew on to an airfield inside Britain, registering only 7 hours 40 minutes from take-off to landing. He thus reduced by 21 minutes the previous tarmac-to-tarmac Atlantic flight of 8 hours 1 minute, ■which was accomplished 14 months ago by ,a pilot officer of the R.A.A.F. in a Hudson twin-engined bomber. The machine was flown across the Atlantic in dense cloud practically all the way at a height of 20,000 ft. Another record went by the board when Captain Crisp flew from Montreal to Britain, a distance of 3100 miles, in 12 hours 5 minutes. This is four minutes better than the previous record.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25214, 1 May 1943, Page 5
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