The Archive · 1938

Doing 148-160 Miles an Hour

London, Nov. 6.

The three Royal Air Force nonstop aeroplanes signalled the Air Ministry about midnight GMT. (8 am., Shanghai time) that they were near the East Coast of Indic. on their flight from Ismailia, Egyp', to Australia. The leading flyers at 8.30 a.n Shanghai time, were 3,340 miles from the take-dff.

Machine No. 1 reported at that hour that it had reached a point on the East Coast of India near Vizageparam, and was travelling at 160 mile: per hour. The second Vickers

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