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WORLD RECORD CLAIMED IN GERMANY NEW TYPES OF FIGHTERS. SAID TO BE FASTEST IN WORLD. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) BERLIN, April 27. Fritz Wendel, flying a Messer Schmidt 1175 horse-power Mercedes Benz, claims a world record of 472 miles an hour. General Udet, Inspector-General of the German Air Force, claims that Germany has two new types of fighters capable of a speed 124 miles an hour faster than any foreign machine.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1939, Page 5
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78AIR SPEED Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1939, Page 5
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