NEW AIR RECORD
Received Wednesday, 9.45 p.m. NEW YUKK, April 16. Mr. Milton Reynolds, the millionaire and amateur aviator, landed at Lauuardia. airport, breaking the around-the-world record >by 679 minutes. A crowd of 2000 br'oke through the police iines to the airmen who were met by customs officiaJs and health authorities who planned to vaccinate them against small pox. *. Mu'meipal officials welcomed them on beliali of New York city. Nobody has made a world flight under conditions -specified by the Federalion Aeronautique International. The fastest unofficial global fliglit hitherto has been that of the millionaire Howard Hughes in July 1938, over .14,824 miles in 911irs 14mins. Hughes flew over European Russia and Siberia but the Soviet Union declined to permit Reynolds to. use a similar route, explaining that Russia 's reconstruction problems were so great that no teclinicians were available to service the» flight. ■
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 April 1947, Page 5
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