THEN AND NOW
CONQUERING THE AIR LONDON, Dee. 20. On the 25th anniversary of the first flight of a power-driven aeroplane, when Orville Wright flew 750 feet at a speed of 50 miles an hour, the Imperial Airways' Armstrong-Siddley liner, carrying 21 passengers, to-day flew from London to Paris in an. hour and 45 minutes, averaging 130 miles an hour. The liner arrived 45 minutes ahead of schedule.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16837, 28 December 1928, Page 8
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68THEN AND NOW Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16837, 28 December 1928, Page 8
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