HIGH SPEED FLYING.
BRITAIN’S NEW RECORD. CORRECT FIGURES. (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Sept. 13. Flight-Lieutenant Orlebar yesterday made another attempt to break Tuesday’s world speed record. He brilliantly completed six laps and it was later announced at Calsliot_ that he reached a mean speed of 357.7 miles per hour. His fastest lap was 360. l miles per hour. The new record displaces the previous one achieved by Flight-Lieuten-ant Orlebar 355.7 miles an hour—and will be duly submitted as Britain’s claim to the world’s speed record. It was at first thought, with stopwatch timing, that the speed was practically the same as on Tuesday, but there was great satisfaction at Calshot when it was learned that the earlier performance had been exceeded. The corrected figures were discovered after the record by a special electrical timing apparatus liad been worked out and the film developed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 September 1929, Page 9
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143HIGH SPEED FLYING. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 September 1929, Page 9
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