FASTER YET
PILOT READY FOR AIR SPEED RECORD TESTS IN ENGLAND British Official Wireless Reed. 11.20 a.m. RUGBY, Friday It is learned tliat a request is to be made to tlie Air Ministry to permit a further attack to be made on the existing world’s speed record held by Squadron-Leader Orlebar, of 357.7 miles an hour. It is proposed to use a modified Gloster Napier 6 monoplane. This is a seaplane which has recently been
altered after having been flown at 336 miles an hour by Flight-Lieutenant Stainfortli. The modifications which have been made will, it is estimated, add at least 25 miles an hour to the maximum speed. The machine is now at Felixstowe, where tests are shortly to be made with it. It is hoped to secure a service pilot and Flight-Lieutenant Stainfortli is understood to be prepared to make the attempt.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1016, 5 July 1930, Page 9
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144FASTER YET Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1016, 5 July 1930, Page 9
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