The Archive · 1932

Parachute End of Record Flight

After breaking'

Etampes, Aug. 21, the world's air kilometres with a load of 500 kilogrammes, the French airman Haeglen was' un-fable to land owing to a fog. After a while he made a sate Parachute descent. His machine 1d suffered only slight damage.

Haeglen to-day reached a speed of 177.09 miles an hour, which improves by nearly six miles an hour the old of 171.49. miles fan hour, established by Calla, a Crech" aviator, However, as the London, 'Sept. 'Cubitt, wife of the Governor of Bermuda, launched at the Vickers Armstrong works a now liner, the Queen' of Bermuda, which: is a quadruple screw turbo electric vessel, 576 fect in length and with 764 feet breadth, She is equipped for the carriage of passengers, mails and general and refrigerated cargoes for the Net York-Bermuda trade of the Furne Bermuda Line Frenchman didn't land at acting int the now cord pebyhinn Xéday "cannot count 4

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