NEW FLIGHT RECORD
NON-STOP TRIP STARTS FRENCH ATTEMPT FAILS (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Reed. noon. PARIS, Sunday. Maurice Finat started from Le Bourget yesterday in a cabined monoplane to beat Captain Broad”s 24-hour duration record for light airplanes, remaining in the air for 24 hours 36 minutes. He had sufficient petrol for another six hours when he landed. A message from Berlin says that the German aviators Risticz and Zimmerman, creators of an endurance record, started to-day from Dessau on a nou-stop flight, aiming to reach Peking, via Vladivostock. The two airmen, the brothers Arrachart, started on Saturday from the airdrome at Le Bourget for Calcutta in a 550 horse-power Breguet singleengined biplane, in an endeavour to make a non-stop record. They were forced to descend at Strasbourg at 9.30 a.m., owing to a leakage in the oil pipe.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 449, 3 September 1928, Page 9
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146NEW FLIGHT RECORD Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 449, 3 September 1928, Page 9
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