FAST SURVEY FLIGHT
LONDON TO LISBON 208 MILES AN HOUR (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 29 Surveying the proposed British South Atlantic air route, a British Airways Lockheed machine yesterdry covered the distance from London to Lisbon in 4 hours 59 minutes, an average speed of 208 miles an hour. The aeroplane goes on to Agadir to-day, thence to Dakar, reaching Bathurst on December 31.
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20692, 30 December 1938, Page 5
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