HOWARD HUGHES
— CONTINENTAL AIR RECORD SET LOS ANGELES TO NEW YORK NEW YORK, August 20. , Howard Hughes, the millionaire aviator and round-the-world flyer, landed here today at 8.56 a.m., having set up a new trans-continental record for a commercial plane of 10 hours 35 minutes 50 seconds. He took off from Los Angeles at 6.21 p.m. yesterday. Hughes is co-operating with the Mayo Foundation for testing a substrathosphere, ultra-light oxygen mask. He plans several transcontinental flights six miles up, disregarding the weather.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1938, Page 5
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