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THE LINDBERGHS ARRIVAL AT MOSCOW. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Tuesday, 9.35 a.m.) MOSCOW, Monday. The Lindberghs have arrived here. . • '•• AEROPLANE CRASH. SYDNEY, Monday. An aeroplane, with two Brisbane youths, Alfred' Henderson, aged 19, and Frederick' Robertson, aged 18, crashed near. Tare.ef on the North Coast, to-day. Henderson received a broken nose, but his companion was unhurt. Engine trouble necessitated a forced landing, the machine, striking a fence, overturning, 1 and becoming a wreck. Local farmers extricated the youths. RECORD BROKEN. (Received Tuesdav, 11.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, Monday. Colonel Roscoe Turner broke the west to cast trans-continental speed record by 134 minutes, negotiating the distance from Burbank, California, to the Floyd Bennett Field here, a distance of 2520 miles, in ten hours 54 minutes. Turner flew a 900 horse-power low wing monoplane, his top speed being 315 miles per hour.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 September 1933, Page 5
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