LONG-DISTANCE FLIGHT RECORD CLAIMED
(Received August 3, 7.10 p.m.) ROME, August 2.
A three-engined air force aeroplane claims a world record for a long distance closed circuit of 8036 miles in 57hr Usee, at an average speed of 140 a miles an hour. The circuit had triangular sides of 621 miles.
The Japanese held the previous record—724o miles.
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Southland Times, Issue 23887, 4 August 1939, Page 7
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