"RECORD" FLIGHT TO PARIS
General Scelr one Sunday in March lash brat nil flying ■ ."records" between England and' France, coming over from Folkestone to Paris, a distance of 172 mjles, in Timin. Tlio General travelled in an Army biplane, which took only lflmin. to. oross tho Channel between Folkestone and Cape Qris Nez, Smin. between Capo Gris Ner. and Boulogne, and 59min. between Boulogne and Paris. [This flight represents a sneed of just linder 140 miles <iu hour. The "record" (light from Paris.to London, made by a, Britisfli machine .previously, took lhr. 50min. The exact distance covered in this flight was not announced. In January an Italian biplane (MnrcheHi-Vickers-Tcrni). in trials conducted flt a height of 100 ft. from tlio ground, attained a speed of 162 miles per hour, but that, of course, was not for a flight over a distance.] ' '
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 199, 17 May 1919, Page 7
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141"RECORD" FLIGHT TO PARIS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 199, 17 May 1919, Page 7
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