ENDURANCE FLIGHT.
TEST FAILS. PETROL SUPPLY EXHAUSTED. (Electric Telegraph.—Copyright). (Received This day, 9.5 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20. Captain Smith landed at 9.47 this morning with his petrol exhausted, the endurance flight failing, by approximately three hours, to break the record. A message received at eight o’clock in the morning declared that the ’plane would probably be able to remain up an hour and a-half longer, which would make the total time more than two hours below the record. The message also stated that the ’plane was functioning perfectly, hut the petrol supply was low. The airmen landed at Mills Field, having kept the ’plane aloft until practically the last drop of petrol had been drained from the tanks.
The unofficial time for the flight was 49 hours 29 minutes, which is two hours fifty-three minutes below the German record.—(A. & N.Z.)
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Waipawa Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 43, 21 December 1927, Page 3
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