OVER SIXTY HOURS ALOFT MAKES NEW AIR RECORD
(United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association) Reed. 12.15 p.m. BRUSSELS, Mon. The aviators Crooy and Groenen achieved a world record duration flight, with the replenishment of tanks, during a flight of 60 hours 7 minutes 32 seconds.
The tanks were refilled by means of a new mid-air method, which already had been carried out four times from another airplane.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 372, 5 June 1928, Page 11
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69OVER SIXTY HOURS ALOFT MAKES NEW AIR RECORD Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 372, 5 June 1928, Page 11
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