LONG DISTANCE FLYING
OUT TO LOWER RECORD [ Australian Press Ayan. ] PARIS, Sept. 27. Costes and Belleconte left Le Bourget in ‘an attempt to make a record non-stop flight in a monoplane of 600 horse power with a capacity of 1200 gallons of petrol. They hope to be aloft for fifty hours and cover 5500 miles in the direction of Japan.
A later message states that the Frenchmen, Captains Costes and Belleconte, left Lc Bourget on Friday in an attempt to beat the world’s non-stop air record, their objective being Harbin. They are using a modified Broquet machine equipped with a 600 horse power Hispano-Suiza engine.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 232, 30 September 1929, Page 7
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105LONG DISTANCE FLYING Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 232, 30 September 1929, Page 7
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