The Mercury, arrived here at 410 yesterday afternoon, GMT. (10 minutes past midnight, Shanghai time) Although the seaplane failed to beat the non-stop long distance flight record, she gained the world's. long distance record for seaplanes by a substantial margin of 731 miles.
As the result of severe head winds, which caused a drain on her fuel reserves, the Mercury had to alight at the mouth of the Orange River, in South West Africa, at 725 am. G.M.T, having then flown 6,045 miles. The previous seaplane record. of 5214 miles was set up by. the German Dornier catapult aircraft from Start Bay to Brazil.
The Mercury's average speed was 144 m.p.h. throughout her flight. This" was easily the highest speed ever maintained on a long distance flight, The average cruising speed of the Russian record flight from Moscow. to San Jacinto (6306 miles) was just over 100 mp.h.
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