RAPID TRAVEL

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20891, 24 August 1939, Page 3

RAPID TRAVEL

WOMAN MAKES RECORD 24,694 MILES COVERED 17 DAYS BY AIR LINERS (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, July 17 Mrs Clara Adams, a well-known "first flight” flier, reached Newark airport, outside New York, this weekend from Sun Francisco, having completed a round-the-world journey of 24,694 miles by regular air lines, says the New York correspondent of the Daily Express. She made the journey In the record time of a Jittle under 17 days. The previous record was 181 days mane in 1936 by an American reporter, who, however, flew part of I lie way in the German airship llindenburg and used specially chartered ’planes, when regular air liners were not available. Mrs Adams told me that her trip cost her about £3BO in fares and another £IOO in hotels and meals. She carried 401 b of luggage. Broadcast to Fair She travelled via New York in the Dixie Clipper to Marseilles and thence by Rangoon, Hong Kong, Manila, Honolulu and California. Her biggest thrill, she said, was when she talked over the radio while thousands of feet in the air over Honolulu to crowds at the Golden Gate fair, San Francisco. A tall, slender widow of middle age, she showed no sign of exhaustion caused by such concentrated flying. At Jodhpur she crossed the path of Mr Norman Lee, a New York broker also going round the world by air liners in an attempt to beat the 1936 record, lie took over 20 days however. Together they called on the Maharaja of Jodhpur.