CENTENARY AIR RACE
CLYDE PANGBORN'S PLANS
TESTING A NEW. MACHINE
NEW YOPiK, January 23
Clyde Pangborn, the transpacific flyer, stated tonight that it is fairly certain ■^ie will be entering the London-Mel-bourne race.
Ho is making a deftnitq decision after testing a new monoplane called the Flying Wing, designed by Clair Vance, a noted speed pilot. Tho aeroplane is estimated to have ii cruising speed of approximately 200 miles an hour, and a cruising radius of 2000 miles. "My tentative plans call for a copilot,," he said! "Wo would fly night and day, stopping only for fuel. I estimate we could complete the trip within fifty hours."
James Haizlip, at Marianna, Florida, stated that he had no definite plans yet, but expected to reach a decision within a month.
Clyde E. PangbOrn came to fame in 1931, when ho and Hugh Herndon, jun., made a world flight in which They accomplished, the first non-stop crossing of the Pacific from Japan to the United States, in the Lockheed Vega aeroplane, Miss Veedol.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1934, Page 11
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171CENTENARY AIR RACE Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1934, Page 11
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