AIR SPEED RECORD
AVERAGE OF 620 MILES: AN HOUR Recd. 11.11 p.m. London, Nov. 7 Group-Captain Willie Wilson, Hying his Meteor jet plane |i '‘Britannia,” made four runs U over the Herne Bay course this ] morning, under international j conditions, for the world air < speed record. | : He averaged a speed of 620 ' ; miles an hour, which is a world |' record. His first run averaged i' 600 miles an hour, the second ! 602/the third 592, and the last r the phenomenal speed of 613 ! miles an hour. Although the trips were made | 1 as a trial, they were officially I watched and confirmed, but it is not known whether they will stand as a world record. The > speed is some 120 miles an hour | faster than the previous world’s record, established by the Germans just before World War IT.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 264, 8 November 1945, Page 5
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