Berlin, Oct. 21
With the record flight of the plane Nordstern from the United States to Europe, the German Lufthansa closed this year's North Atlantic air traffic. A total of 28 flights were made from July 21 to October 20. Lufthansa planes covered a total of 1,669,334 kilometres over the North and South Atlantic up to October 20.
The travelling speed across the North Atlantic has been increased remarkably since the first experimental flights of 1936. The average travelling speed from Horta to New York was 192 kilometres per hour in 1936 while it is now 246 kilometres er hour. In the opposite direction, ie. from New York to Horta the a layerage speed was 216 kilom 1936 and 270 in 1938.—Trans-Ocean.
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