RECORDS IN THE AIR

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21133, 5 September 1938, Page 8

RECORDS IN THE AIR

YOUNG WOMAN'S FINE PERFORMANCE GERMAN AND RUSSIAN ACHIEVEMENTS utiiiH«i IJr esf> Association —Bv Elptthc Tpipcranh Couvripht (Received September 4, 7.30 p.m. ) CLEVELAND, September 3. Jacqueline Cochran, of New York, crossed the finishing line here eight hours 10 minutes 31.4 seconds, after leaving Los Angeles to win the 9000 dollars first prize In the 30,000 dollar Bendix air Derby, against nine male rivals. After pausing half an hour here. Miss Cochran continued to Bendix (New Jersey), thus making her total winnings 12,500 dollars, of which 2500 is for being the first woman finishing, and 1000 for continuing to Bendix. CIRCUIT OF EUROPEAN CAPITALS FAST JOURNEY BY GERMAN PLANE United Press Association—By Electric (Received September 4, 6.30 p.m.) BERLIN, September 3. A new type of plane, a two-engined Siebel,' alighted at Tempelhof aerodrome at 12.1 a.m„ having completed, in 24 hours, with brief stops, the circuit of London, Paris, Rome, Bucharest, Warsaw and Stockholm, a distance of 39,000 miles at an average speed of 162 miles an hour. SOVIET AVIATION RECORD TRYING OUT AIR MAIL SERVICE United Press Association—By Electric Telrera oh—Copyright (Received September 4, 6.30 p.m.) MOSCOW, September 3. Flying the mail plane, the Soviet ace Tyutyaev, covered a trip from Moscow to Vladivostock and back, a distance of 10,250 miles, in 54 hours.