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WOMAN’S ENDURANCE RECORD
(United Press. Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
NEW YORK, April 24
Elinor Smith landed this afternoon, creating a women’s solo endurance record of fifteen hours eighty-one minutes thirtv-two seconds.
DISTANCE FLYING RECORD
R.A.F. ENTERPRISE.
LONDON, April 24
A British attempt, to break the world’s non-stop long distance air record began, when a Royal Air Force monoplane, with a single 'ls h.p. oncr * left Cranwell Aerodrome for Calcutta, ft is piloted bv SquadronLeader Jones-Williams and FlightLieutenant Jenkins. The latter combines the services of navigator and second pilot;
The route selected is live thousand three hundred miles.
aerial bombing:
ABOLITION PROPOSAL REJECTED
GENEVA, April 24
The Commission has rejected the German proposal to prohibit aerial bombing in war time. The . minority consisted of Germany, liussia, China. Holland and Sweden.
NON-STOP ELY
BAGHDAD, April 25. The non-stop plane passed over here at L p.tn., Greenwich mean time, at n great height.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1929, Page 5
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150AVIATION Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1929, Page 5
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