RECORD FLIGHT BY AIRSHIP
Reeeived Monday, 10.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 3. - A naval airsliip landed at Glynco, Georgia, at'ter estahlishing a world record for continuous fliglit witliout refnelling. The airsliip, which is the largest tlic navy possesses, left its
moorings at Lakehurst, New .Tersev, last Sunda.v and roamed the Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico for 170 hours IS minutes. The previous record was 130 hours 27 niinute's estahlished liy the Russians in 1935.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 November 1946, Page 8
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