Around World Solo Record Flight Has a False Start
(N.Z.P.A.—Reuter— Copyright.> " Reed. 8 p.m. Chicago. Aug. 4. Captain William Odom, who took off today in a two-motor converted bomber for a round-the-world solo flight, returned io Chicago when he encountered aileron trouble just after he had passed Halifax. He intends to start the flight again tomorrow.
Captain Odom is a former British Ferry Command pilot, and hopes to halve the round-the-world solo record of 7 days 18 hours 45 minutes made by the late Wilev Post in 1933. Odom will try to maintain a speed of 320 miles an hour, and has plannod the fight in six legs—Paris, Karachi, Shanghai, Tokio, Fairbanks, and back to Chicago. The circuit is 19.600 miles.
The flight is bucked by the million aire Milton Reynolds.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 6 August 1947, Page 5
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