AIR SPEED
NEW BRITISH ATTEMPT ON RECORD PREPARATION OF SPECIAL PLANE. FLIGHT TO BE MADE OVER SOLENT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) RUGBY, November 11. An attempt to establish a new. speed record for- land planes is to be made, probably before Christmas, by the Royal Air Force. It is reported that the attempt will be made over the Solent with a super-marine Spitfire monoplane fighter, fitted with a Rolls Royce-Merlin engine and specially prepared for the purpose. The record is held by Dr. Wurster, a German pilot, with a speed of 379.644 miles an hour in a Messerschmidt monoplane. Seaplanes, however, have reached , a speed of over 440 miles an hour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1938, Page 8
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115AIR SPEED Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1938, Page 8
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