WORLD FLIGHT
HUGHES REACHES MOSCOW SWIFT TRAVEL AT GREAT HEIGHT. LANDING WHEEL DAMAGED ' . IN TAKE-OFF. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. LONDON, July 12. Howard Hughes, the millionaire American aviator who, with four companions, is on a flight round the world, landed at Moscow at 7.16 p.m. (8.5. T. this evening. He wirelessed Paris after taking off and ascertained that his landing-wheel, which was damaged in the take-off, was in normal position. He flew most of the distance blind at a height of 16,000 feet, using oxygen. His average speed for the flight from Paris was 209.4 miles an hour. He left again at 11.35 a.m. (8.5. T. for Omsk.
The Soviet North Pole fliers, Gromoff, Baidukoff and Yumasheff, and the Soviet Ambassador in Washington, who is on leave in Moscow, were among those who welcomed Hughes on his arrival. Baidukoff said:, “I’ll see you in America,” which is interpreted as meaning that he contemplates another trans-Polar flight. KAZAN PASSED; (Recd This Day, 9.45 a.m.) MOSCOW, July 12. Hughes has passed over Kazan, 450 miles east of Moscow.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1938, Page 7
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