Camera Failure Spoils Air Record
Received Monday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 5. • A tecknieality robbed Major Richard L. Johnson, of the United Stat.es Air Force, of an almost certain. world air speed record of approximately 669 miles hourly, at Cleveland today. Alajoi Jolinson made six passes over a measured three kilometre course in a fuiiy armed F S6 jet-fighter and the Air Force announced he had unofficially beaten the previous record by the United States Navv of 650.796 miles hourly. Sixty thousand spectators watcliing tlie national air races, cheered him, but three hours later tlie Air Force announced tliat the ofiicial timing cameras caught only three of the six passes and because of a failure to register at least two passes upwind and two downwind, the film could not be submitted to the International Aeronautical Federation for ratification.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19480907.2.40
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 7 September 1948, Page 5
Word Count
139Camera Failure Spoils Air Record Chronicle (Levin), 7 September 1948, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in