FLIGHT ROUND WORLD
ATTEMPT ■ON SOLO RECORD BACKED BY MILLIONAIRE AIRMAN Rec 8 pm. CHICAGO, Aug. 4. Captain William Odom took off today in a two-motor converted bomber oi/a round-the-world solo flight. Odom flew the same aeroplane round the world in 79 hours 25 minutes in April, carrying as navigator the millionaire Milton Reynolds, who is backing the Pl Odom, < who t ’is a former British Ferry Command pilot, hopes to halve the round-the-world solo record of seven days 18 hours 45 minutes, made by the late Wiley Post in 1933 in a secondhand. single-engine aircraft. Odorn will try to maintain a speed of ddu miles an hour and has planned the flight in six legs—to Paris, Karachi, Shanghai, Tokio, Fairbanks and back to Chicago where he hopes to return late on Thursday night, thereby completing the 19,600-mile circuit in less than four days.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26532, 6 August 1947, Page 5
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