NATIONAL AIR RACES
AMERICAN SETS NEW WORLD RECORD Rec.' 10.30 p.m. NEW YORK. Sept. 2. Four planes crashed yesterday in the Thompson Trophy Race at the National air races. One pilot was killed, two parachuted to safety, and the fourth crasTi-landed successfully. Cook Cleland. of Cleveland. Ohio, won the race with an average speed of 396.1 miles an hour for 300 miles around a rectangular course of 15 miles. Cleland, who set a new world's record for official closed course racing, won 18.000 dollars. The previous record of 384 miles an hour was set the previous day in a special race for Mustangs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26556, 3 September 1947, Page 5
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