The aeroplane is now easily the fastest apparatus in which a man can travel, says ''Motor Cycling." Speeds of 130 and 150 miles an hour will soon he quite a common thing. Those speeds are tested in calm air, and if the machine were to ft , ;, down wind in a gale it would mean that it would be travelling at the rate of close on 200 miles per hour. The rnotor-car record stands in tho region of 130 milos per hour, while the motor-cycle is still under tho 100 miles per hour mark.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 159, 25 March 1918, Page 6
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93Untitled Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 159, 25 March 1918, Page 6
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