AIRMEN SET NEW RECORD ENDURANCE FLIGHT; STILL ALOFT.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, May 25. At Fort Worth, Texas, the commercial monoplane Fort Worth set a world record for a sustained refuelling flight, on Saturday night, passing by an hour the record of one hundred and fifty hours forty minutes fifteen seconds, established in January last by the army monoplane Question Mark. Pilot Reginald Robbins and his assistant, James Kelly, have refuelled for the sixteenth time, and are hoping to remain aloft for another fifty hours. Robbins is an automobile mechanic who learned to fly while making himself useful about the airfield. Kelly was a cowboy, who forsook his Texas ranch, and obtained a pilot’s license only seven weeks ago. The engine of the machine, a single Wright Whirlwind motor, had operated for five hundred hours before the flight. Robbins refused to have it rebuilt.— Australian Press Association —United Service.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18769, 27 May 1929, Page 6
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