WORLD FLIGHT
AMERICAN MAINTAINS GOOD TIME United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—convrlght OMSK, July 12. Howard Hughes, the American airman who is attempting a four days round-the-world flight, left Omsk, Siberia at 11.37 p.m. (British Standard Time). He arrived at 7 p.m., after a seven and a half hours’ journey Tom Moscow. The airman planned to stop at t -o S'berian refuelling points, then Fairbanks, Alaska, and Edmonton, Alberta. Hughes left Le Bourget for Moscow at 2.14 a.m. (British Standard Time), and landed at Moscow at 9.16 a.m.
YAKUTSK REACHED HIGH AVERAGE SPEED United °ress Association—By Electric TeTzra ph —Copyrlgh t (Received July 14, 1.5 a.m.) YAKUTSK, July 13. Hughes landed at 10.08 (8.5. T. He averaged 220 miles an hour.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21088, 14 July 1938, Page 7
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120WORLD FLIGHT Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21088, 14 July 1938, Page 7
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