GLOSTER METEOR FLIES AT 618 M.P.H.
- LONDO'N, January i7. In the Royal Air Force Gloster Meteo'r which made the world air speed record of 6il6 miles an hour in September, Squadron-Leader W. A. Waterton flew from. Le Bourget to Crojrdon in the elapsed tinie of 20 minutes 11 second^ for 208 s'tatwte miles,' giving a sped of 018.4 niilesr.au houtr. He flew thc wholc distance at about 10,000 feet.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5305, 18 January 1947, Page 5
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69GLOSTER METEOR FLIES AT 618 M.P.H. Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5305, 18 January 1947, Page 5
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