FAST AIR TRAVEL
TRANSCONTINENTAL RECORD. (United Press Assn.— Telegraph Copyright.) New York, September 25. Colonel Roscoe Turner broke the west to east transcontinental . speed record by 13J minutes, negotiating the distance from Burbank (California) to Floyd Bennett Field here (2520 miles) in 10 hours 51 minutes. Turner flew a SOO-horsepower low _ wing monoplane, his top speed being 315 miles an hour.
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Southland Times, Issue 22131, 27 September 1933, Page 5
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61FAST AIR TRAVEL Southland Times, Issue 22131, 27 September 1933, Page 5
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