The Archive · 1928

Arrival at Calcutta

Karachi, Feb. 14. inckler, who is flying ved here, He has accomplished the flight from London to Karachi in record time for light aeroplanes. His average, speed hes besa 80 miles an hour.

His time from Croydon to Karachi was seven and a half days. The previous best was eleven days, done by the Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, last year. The fastest trip from Europe to India was done in seven days by the Dutch pilot M. Koppen, who flew from Amsterdam to Karachi in October in a Fokker driven by British engines—Reuter.

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