Mr. Hughes Takes Off from Yakutsk Heading for Alaska; Hopes to Beat Record by Three Days Moscow, July 13.
R. Howard Hughes' streamlined monoplane roared down the Yakutsk air field, rose into the air at 2.01 p.m. Moscow time today and headed west across Siberia and the Pacific toward Fairbanks, Alaska.
Elapsed time from New York as the "New York World Fair 1939" and its crew of five took off was sixty hours and one minute. Total hours in the ai it at the half-way point in the globe-circling flight totalled 42 hours and 21 minutes. On the flight from Omsk, Mr. Hughes averaged 205.2 miles an hour.
He indicated he hoped to arrive at Floyd Bennett field Thursday night, slashing Mr. Wiley Post's round the world record by three full days. In 1933 the late Mr. Post flew virtually the same route in seven days, eighteen hours and 49% minutes—United Press.
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